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Wed 05 May 2007Hearing on voter ratios beginsCourt action:The High Court has begun hearing a challenge by two Independent TDs to the "manifestly unconstitutional" manner in which certain Dáil constituencies have been revised.The action is not designed to affect the upcoming election but to ensure "staggering deviations" between constituencies are not repeated in future elections, their counsel stressed yesterday.