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deviations and creating relatively few political subdivision splits. See Order Stating <br /> Redistricting Principles, supra, at 10- ll (noting that redistricting plans should be "fundamentally <br /> fair and based primarily on the state's population and secondarily on neutral districting <br /> principles"). Because we have already held that the current legislative districts are inappropriate <br /> for use in future elections, see Scheduling Order No. 2, supra, at 3, we enjoin the defendants and <br /> the class of election officials they represent from conducting elections for the Minnesota Senate <br /> or the Minnesota House of Representatives using the current legislative districts or any <br /> legislative redistricting plan other than that which we hereby adopt.S In the alternative, <br /> defendants may conduct elections under any constitutional legislative plan subsequently enacted <br /> by the Minnesota Legislature and the Governor of the State of Minnesota. <br /> DATED: March 19,2002 BY THE PANEL: <br /> Edward Toussaint, Jr. <br /> Presiding Judge <br /> f <br /> OLAI <br /> Thomas J. Kalito ki Gary J.Pa li cetti <br /> ZeJi dgui gS. SS c h e I I h a Renee L. Worke <br /> 5 We will provide Secretary of State Mary Kiffineyer's office with a block equivalency file <br /> and a copy of this order to facilitate the implementation of this plan. If any ambiguities should <br /> arise regarding the plan set forth in this order, the secretary of state is directed to act in <br /> accordance with Minn. Stat. §§ 2.91, subds. 2 — 3, 204B.146, subd. 3 (2000). <br /> -8- <br />