State Ex Rel. South St. Paul v. Hetherington

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging that those charged with redistricting must exercise their own discretion, but that there are limits thereon
• stating that the fundamental right to vote is preserved when the electoral system allows the citizen to obtain a reasonable equality of representation
• stating that “[t]he right to vote on a basis of reasonable equality with other citizens is a fundamental and personal right essential to the preservation of self-government. Fundamental rights may be lost by dilution as well as by outright denial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).