In re Reapportionment of Towns of Woodbury & Worcester

¶ 1. Petitioners, citizens of the towns of Woodbury and Worcester, challenge the Legislature’s 2002 reapportionment of voting districts for the Vermont House of Representatives on grounds that placement of their towns in the new Lamoille-Washington-1 district violates constitutional and statutory requirements. We deny petitioners’ challenge.

¶ 2. To maintain equal representation in the General Assembly, the constitution requires the Legislature to reapportion its voting districts after each decennial census. See Vt. Const, ch. II, § 73. While the primary constitutional criterion is numerical…