Freedom Folks: Apportionment Reform: It's Way Overdue

Along with votes on raising the minimum wage, restricting smoking, curbing state spending and expanding gambling, Ohioans could be asked this November to approve a new system of drawing legislative and congressional boundaries.

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Then he added a bombshell: He's also debating whether to try to amend the U.S. Constitu tion to prevent illegal immi grants from be ing included in population counts used to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. That would not be easy.

Although illegals are barred from voting, they are counted when determining each state's number of seats in Congress.

Yet another facet of why some politicians seem to actively work against solving the ILLEGAL immigration crisis our country is facing. That means that states with large ILLEGAL populations get a disproportionate number of seats which, in turn, means that they end up with a higher power-to-voter ratio than states with lower ILLEGAL populations.

The system favors California, Texas, New York, Florida and other states that are home to lots of noncitizens.

The fix is going to be tough.

Congresswoman Candice Miller, a Michigan Republican, introduced legislation that would exclude illegal immigrants from a state's official apportionment tally.

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For Miller's plan to become the 27th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, it must overcome what political observers say are nearly insurmountable obstacles.

But perhaps, with the 2006 elections looming, people will start getting informed and vocal about this facet of the ILLEGAL immigration problem. I think it's high time for some changes around here. A whole bunch of changes.

Fixing a broken part of how we are represented sounds like a good place to start to me.

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