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As I said, the six judges who voted to strike

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down the decision of the special three-judge court didn't

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file an opinion with their decision. There is a two-judge

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dissenting opinion which would indicate that there were

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two things wrong - possibly one of them being the 31

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percent deviation from the mean, and the second the use of

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unofficial population estimates.

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Reading from the decision of the majority below,

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they said, "In the 1964 Special Session of the Ohio

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Legislature which drafted the redistricting plan here under

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scrutiny, that body relied upon statistics supplied by

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several agencies throughout the State of Ohio in order

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to project population trends likely to result in equal

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redistricting by the time elections were held in 1966."

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The problem there was they used Chamber of

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Commerce Figures, the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce

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research staff for Franklin County; they used figures from

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the Ohio Department of Development, which I am not sure

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is am official agency of the State of Ohio, and they used

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figures from the Citizens League for Cayoga County, so that

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the special three-judge court in Ohio relied at least