24—Tne Daily Colleg an Thursday March 11 1982 Remapping plan distorts voting power, aide charges By SCOTT G. OTT Collegian Staff Writer The recently approved congressional district reapportionment plan gives some districts more voting power than others because inaccurate census figures were used in drawing up the plan, the press secretary to state Rep. Doug Wal gren, D-Pittsburgh, said yesterday. Jonathan Delano said the Supreme Court principle of one person/one vote is violated in the Republican-designed plan that was signed by Gov. Dick Thorn burgh last week. Delano said the new plan is unconstitu tional because all of the congressional districts do not contain the same number of voters, thereby giving individuals in less populous districts more voting pow er. The difference between the highest populated district and the lowest is 2,060, Delano said. Walgren filed suit in U.S. District Court on Friday asking the court "to adopt a non-partisan, compact plan for congressional reapportionment," Delano said. Walgren and several other Democrats will submit their own reapportionment plan to the court. The plan deviates from the ideal population per district by about SPEAKERS. EPI7O This speaker is, quite literally a techno logical breakthrough in low cost sound reproduction. Pound for pound, it's the best speaker made. By using the same magnetic structure that Is used In EPl's larger bass drivers and by carefully "tuning" the suspension system, they've created a speaker that can be driven with only 15 watts and yet can handle thun derous bass energy. We have. a limited supply of these speakers as factory blemished models at reduced prices. Supply is limited. EPI 100 This is the speaker that nade EPI famous. Year after year the leading consumer and audiophile publications give it their highest ratings. 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According to revised figures from the director of the U.S. Bureau of Census, the ideal number of voters per district in Pennsylvania should be 515,821, and not 515,944 the number that state senate Republicans used in drawing up the reapportionment plan, Delano said. "Not a single district contains the ideal number. People in different districts are entitled to the same amount of votes," he said. Fifteen districts are less populated than Rep. William F. Clinger's 23rd dis trict, Delano said. Census Director Bruce .Chapman sent a letter to the Secretary of the Common wealth in October 1981, telling of the erroneous figures, Delano said. However, Richard Campbell, a Repub lican-appointed data processor, failed to enter the new figures in the legislative computer, he said. Eleven copies of the letter were sent "to everyone from the governor's office Pi®A7O - .100 Al2O GENESISI+ .:. - • 11 z0•1‘, (• fl: s \ . ... . - on down to the Liquor Control Board," Delano said. Walgren's office received a copy of the letter in November. He said Democrats in the state senate incorrectly assumed that the Republican plan was based on the revised numbers. The present plan discriminates against communities because of the political views of their citizens, Delano said. s ita AN` it \Ndiri Hifi House THE AUDIO/VIDEO PROFESSIONALS gressional districts "Anyone who looks at this map is going to conclude that there was tremendous political gerrymandering," he said. The Republican-dominated senate ap proved the plan 28 to 22, with two Demo crats joining the majority. Rick Santorum, a legislative assistant to state Senator J. Doyle Corman, R central Pa., said many other Democrats would have voted for the plan because it did not hurt their districts, however, they decided to vote along party lines. "Everytime the Republicans proposed a compromise, the Democrats wanted more," Santorum said. Rep. William F. Clinger, R-central Pa., said "The Democrats were offered a good deal several times, but they got greedy and the Republicans got mad." Clinger said several pending lawsuits asking the courts to draw up a new plan will probably be unsuccessful. If the judge does throw out the present plan, he said a special congressional primary would have to be held possi bly as late as September. This delay could cost taxpayers $5 million, Clinger said. Delano said Walgren is "adamantly opposed to a separate primary for con gressional candidates." However, he said delaying all of the primaries, possibly for a month, would be better than having congressional dis tricts that are unconstitutional. Clinger acknowledged that the figures used to write the reapportionment bill were incorrect, but said,"the deviation is well within the limits that other courts have accepted." "The plan is:Valid because it does not vir.:4 3 4ri-- 17 .e .. • t 11 , 1 1 • Misin )! O 11 . • . 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