1992 Precinct Boundary Change Information

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criteria for legislative and congressional redistricting and directing oral arquaent on other reserved criteria. 12. After the parties' arquaents on the reserved criteria, the panel issued Pretrial Order No. 3 on September 13, 1991, adopting the final criteria for congressional and legislative redistricting. The criteria for leqislative redistrictinq are as follows: 1. The Senate lIU.t be compo.ed of 67 .-ber.. The Rou.e of Repre.entative. au.t be compo.ed of 134 ...-ber.. 2. Each di.trict i. entitled to elect a .ingle member. 3. A repre.entative di.trict aay not be divided in the foraation of a Senate di.trict. 4. The di.trict. auat be .ub.tantially equal in population. The population of a di.trict auat not deviate from the ideal by more than two percent. Becau.e a court-ordered reapportionment plan mu.t conform to a higher .tandard of population equality than a legi.lative reapportionment plan, de minimi. deviation from the population norm will be the goal for establi.hing di.trict.. ... Chanman, 420 u.S. 1, 95 S. ct. 7511 Connor, 431 u.S. 407, 97 S. ct. 1828. 5. The di.trict. mu.t be compoaed of convenient contiguou. territory structured into compact unit.. Contiguity by water i. .ufficient if the water is not a .eriou. ob.tacle to travel within the district. 6. The district. muat be numbered in a regular .erie., beginning with House di.trict 1A in the north.at corner of the .tate and proceeding across the .tate from weat to ea.t, north to .outh, but bypa.sing the seven-county metropolitan area until the .outhea.t corner ha. been reached; then to the .even-county metropolitan area outside the citie. of Minneapolis and St. Paul; then in Minneapolia and St. Paul. 7. The district. mu.t not dilute the voting .trength of racial or language minority population.. Where a concentration of a racial or -5-