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Proceedings and Debates of the 1967 Constitutional Convention
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Charles and St. Mary's Counties.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any further questions?
Delegate Chabot.
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: The average is 110,800.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Chabot.
DELEGATE CHABOT: Would it be fair to assume
then that your proposal would contemplate that where a
senatorial district would include several counties,
that in all probability the House districts would not be
single member districts?
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: I do not think this is
necessarily the case. They could be multi-member districts
or the legislature could adopt the slot system. The
legislature could adopt cumulative voting, or it could use
single member districts.
DELEGATE CHABOT: But based upon your answers
to Mr. Sollins and your answers to me, I assume that we
could not have each county having at least one member of the
House of Delegates if we had single member House districts
is that correct?
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: You can come pretty close,


 
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