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Monday, January 22, 2018

But another, more pressing, problem with litigation in this area is that state constitutions offer more extensive protections for voters than the U.S. Constitution, yet they remain underutilized in the fight against gerrymandering.  

Agree.

The Pennsylvania Constitution explicitly grants its citizens an affirmative right to vote. In addition, the state constitution requires that all elections be “free and equal; and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage.” There is no parallel text in the U.S. Constitution that explicitly offers such protections to the right to vote beyond the Fourteenth Amendment’s general language of equal protection of the laws.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/369706-a-second-bite-at-the-apple-state-constitutions-and-the-ethos-of-fairness-in

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