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Governments don?t have carte blanche, of course, but Virginia?s ballot-access rules seem defensible. Virginia does not, for example, exclude persons from the ballot on improper grounds of race or sex. True, Virginia requires that each listed candidate must have presented 10,000 signatures of qualified voters?a high bar?but that line must be drawn somewhere. Virginia also requires that at least 400 signatures come from each congressional district. In this sense, not all signatures count equally. A signature surplus (above 400) from District A can never offset a signature deficit (below 400) from District B. But votes for individual district races are likewise not interchangeable, and no one thinks that districting per se is unconstitutional. So long as each district is the same size, the basic principle of one-person, one-vote is satisfied.

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