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DELEGATE HANDEL: I did in the House. If the

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Senate had passed it at that time, we probably would have

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had it.

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THE CHAIRMAN: One of the concerns our

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Committee has had, and would you care to comment on this,

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is if each county were to have at least one delegate

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under the one man-one vote concept, you would have to

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have a house that would be somewhere around 200, if it

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were proportionate, let us say, in the year 1970. Would

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you want to comment on that question which has concerned

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us from time to time?

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DELEGATE HANDEL: Well, I think that this

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does create quite a problem, but I think that now we have

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moved into senatorial districts which had never happened

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before and I think we may be moving in the direction of

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legislative districts, as well.

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MR. ENEY: If I can break in and ask you for

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a comment on two aspects of that, that are not clear from

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what you say. Would your answer, as to the number, the

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ideal number, be different for unicaceral versus bi-

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cameral or are you speaking only in terms of the