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2020 Vermont Statutes
Title 17 - Elections
Chapter 34A - Periodic Reapportionment
§ 1901. Purpose
Universal Citation: 17 V.S.A. § 1901.
§ 1901. Purpose
(a) The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires all state legislative bodies to be apportioned in such manner as to achieve substantially equal weighting of the votes of all voters in the choice of legislators.
(b) To comply with such requirement it will be necessary to reapportion the House of Representatives and the Senate at periodic intervals, so that changes may be recognized in legislative apportionment.
(c) It is the purpose of this chapter to achieve such reapportionment in an orderly and impartial manner. (Added 1965, No. 97, § 1; amended 2019, No. 2, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2021; 2019, No. 67, § 3.)
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