Japan court again rules July vote gap in unconstitutional state

A Japanese court ruled Friday that the up to 3.03-fold vote disparity in July's upper house election was in "a state of unconstitutionality," a decision that comes on the heels of three such rulings earlier this month.But the Hiroshima High Court rejected calls to nullify the poll results in the Hiroshima constituency as sought by the plaintiffs.The disparity was "in a state of significant inequality at a level that causes the problem of unconstitutionality," Presiding Judge Kunihiko Yokomizo said in handing down the ruling, while adding that not correcting the disparity before the election…READ FULL ARTICLE