A scholarly discussion of the need for states which lost Congressmen in the last Census to to get on with the gerrymandering
A good deal of uncertainty with respect to the composition of the next House of Representatives has been occasioned by the failure of five or six states that have lost seats in the 1960 census apportionment to redivide themselves into a number of congressional districts consistent with their reduced representatives. In each of these states, unless timely action is taken by its own legislature (which is unlikely) or by Congress (which is scarcely to be conceived), the single-member district system of choosing representatives will in 1962 be abandoned. Every voter will be permitted to vote for every representative to which his state is entitled. The strongest party within the state may be expected to win every seat.
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