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Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: I was going to sug-
gest that to Delegate Burdette. This was
not cur intent. Certainly the qualifications
that are spelled out prior to that in that
section would also be applicable.
THE PRESIDENT: If there is still a
question, the question might possibly be
removed by the insertion in line 11 after
the word "person", the words "in addi-
tion57, although I suggest it would be rather
awkward.
Delegate Burdette?
DELEGATE BURDETTE: Yes, that
would do it. I am really raising this ques-
tion because I think this is a matter that
can be worked out in the Style Committee.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well.
Delegate Rybczynski.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: I would
suggest, sir in line 11, perhaps just a sub-
stitution of a word might help. Instead of
saying "a person", saying "a voter".
THE PRESIDENT: Did you catch the
suggest ion, Delegate Koss?
Delegate Koss, did you get the sugges-
tion? I would question, myself, that the
word would help at all.
Do you have a different idea?
DELEGATE KOSS: I am inclined to
agrf.^ with the President on that.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Carson.
DELEGATE CARSON: Mr. President,
I h;r.v. two questions for the Chairman, for
Doktfjifce Koss.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss, do
you vifild to a question?
lU'hgate Carson.
"LEGATE CARSON: The first is in
your -Amendment lines 15 through 18. You
v,-a^':. 'o strike the word "county" and in-
sert -In lieu thereof the words "electoral
distri;:."
As : understand it, it would read "re-
mc-vnl from one delegate district or elec-
toral district to another"?
DELEGATE KOSS: That was amended
previously, it said "remove all from one
county to another."
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Carson,
section 2.01 as amended on second reading
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does not contain the words "delegate dis-
trict."
DELEGATE CARSON: I understand
that now. Why is it not necessary to keep
the word "county" in? We are still going
to have county elections, and in many
counties you will not have counties broken
down into electoral districts, perhaps.
THE PRESIDENT: While Delegate
Kcss is pondering that, may the Chair ask
that if you do not have a county divided
into electoral districts, would not the
county itself constitute an electoral dis-
trict?
The Chair understands that the words
"electoral district" is not used anywhere
else in this article, and therefore has only
its ordinary name.
DELEGATE CARSON: Except for the
language in 7 through 13, which qualifies
an electoral district as to occur only when
a county is divided to form different elec-
toral districts.
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair suggests
you read that very carefully, and I doubt
that you would reach that conclusion. I am
not being facetious when I say that I
think the preceding sentence is susceptible
of the construction you put on it, but I do
not think that is the only construction.
Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: Mr. President,
I have two questions of Chairman Koss.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss, do
you yield to a question.
DELEGATE KOSS: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: First of all,
what happens under this provision to the
eligibility of a person to vote if the redis-
tricting for one or more of these offices
has occurred less than three months be-
fore the date of the election?
I am thinking of situations of which I
have knowledge in other states, and which
we almost approached in congressional re-
districting in this State, in which the dis-
tricts were not drawn a very long time be-
fore the election was held. In some cases
the districts were drawn under court order,
and the election was held perhaps within
six weeks or two months thereafter.
DELEGATE KOSS: Delegate Hanson,
I am not immediately aware of what the
time table that you put on the legislative
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