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have to be sufficient in time to take care of the

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primary election as well as the general, because the

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would-be candidates would want to know fairly early where

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they stood. Since you don't get the federal figures,

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the final federal figures on census tract basis until

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December of 1971, it would seem to me that the

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Commission would have to go to work as soon as those

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figures were available and get them into the General

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Assembly promptly, and hopefully the General Assembly

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would then take action so that there would be an oppor-

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tunity to set up congressional districts for the primary

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election.

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THE CHAIRMAN: So that the Committee would

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intend that the words, in lines 23 and 24, "immediately

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prior to the statewide congressional general election"

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would mean any time after the Census figures were available

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and prior to the primary election?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes, sir, that is correct,

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between the time of the 1970 Federal Census count being

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available and the primary election.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any other questions?