The NY Times offers this report, which begins: “For years, New York Republicans have propped up their slim majority in the State Senate partly by seizing on a quirk in the federal census: counting prisoners as residents of the rural districts where they are incarcerated, rather than of the urban neighborhoods where they last lived. That way, predominantly Republican rural districts wind up with more seats in the state Legislature, since seats are apportioned on the basis of population. But last week, a federal appeals court in New York hinted that counting prisoners as upstaters might illegally dilute the voting rights of downstaters.”
The opinion in question is Hayden v. Pakaki and my earlier coverage can be found here