The following excerpt is from Rockefeller v. Powers, 74 F.3d 1367 (2nd Cir. 1996):
Finally, we reject the defendants' argument that, because "the best party" to bring this claim is a delegate candidate, not non-candidate voters, the plaintiffs lack "prudential standing." Voters have standing to bring claims alleging that their district was unconstitutionally drawn because they suffer "special harms" from this constitutional violation. United States v. Hays, --- U.S. ----, ----, 115 S.Ct. 2431, 2436, 132 L.Ed.2d 635 (1995). The plaintiffs allege here that the state action decreases their voting choices relative to voters in other districts. This harm is particular to them and would not be felt in those terms by the delegate candidates who abandoned the race or failed to collect enough signatures. As said in Bullock, "the rights of voters and the rights of candidates do not lend themselves to neat separation." 405 U.S. at 143, 92 S.Ct. at 856. We therefore conclude that the plaintiffs have standing to bring this suit.
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