Apportionment of Ionia County Board of Commissioners-1972

The statute providing for the apportionment of county boards of commissioners 1 is close to being a model of a tightly organized, finely worded piece of legislative drafting, which has a central aim and a rationale or methodology by which to achieve this aim. The central aim of the legislation is to insure that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is applied to the election of county boards of commissioners.

The methodology was to establish a county apportionment commission mandated to apportion the county into districts within a range based…