A Japanese court ruled Monday that the vote weight disparity in last year's lower house election was "in a state of unconstitutionality," becoming the third court to make such a decisionThe Sapporo High Court in northern Japan, however, dismissed a request by the plaintiffs to nullify the outcome, in the fourth ruling of 14 similar lawsuits filed nationwide by groups of lawyers.The lawyers filed the suits seeking to void the results and conduct a rerun of October's House of Representatives election due to the 2.08-fold disparity in the weight of votes between the most and least populated si…READ FULL ARTICLE
