To the editor:

An article in the KC Star on May 27 is titled “Case could shift power.” This has to do with the “one person, one vote” principle that “has been used to try to equally distribute political power by counting all people in states and cities, and then putting them into election districts of roughly the same size.” The article suggests that political power could shift from Latino communities in California, Texas and Florida, and move to suburban and rural communities.

The Supreme Court will hear a Texas case on this matter. Voting districts could be drawn based either on census data on total population or on counting only citizens who are eligible to vote. The former scheme is the way districts are drawn today. The article notes that in counting total population, the total could include “immigrants here both legally and illegally.”

My view is that if a census worker comes to a household not yet recorded in the total, will anyone report residents who are undocumented? Not likely. But if only citizens eligible to vote are counted, then some are left out and elected representatives are supposed to speak for everyone, not just eligible voters.