Iannucci v. Board of Supervisors

Breitel, J,

(dissenting). It is significant that the court does not hold that weighted voting schemes are per se unconstitutional, or even that the particular plans sub judice deviate so much from the constitutional ideal of one man-one vote as to be rendered invalid. Rather, the holding assumes that the plans *255are of doubtful validity although the Supremo Court of the United States has abstained deliberately from mandating the one man-one vote doctrine on local legislative bodies and that, in the present cases, the defendant counties have not satisfied the burden of demonstrating or producing…