The subtle but destructive tinkering with the very sinews of the nation’s elections has shredded the constitutional logic of “one person, one vote.”3 Whether it was reconfiguring congressional district boundaries, removing polling stations from minority neighborhoods, reducing the dates for early voting, or ratcheting up the standards for those conducting voter registration drives, all those little, virtually unnoticeable-until-it’s-too-late bureaucratic tricks had major consequences.

