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DELEGATE MANDEL: Either active or permanent.
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THE CHAIRMAN: That brings us over to Ques-
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tion 12. We may come back to some of this. When and
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how often should reapportionment and/or redistricting
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occur? Can you do it after each decennial census?
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SENATOR JAMES: What else?
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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: Well, in fooling around
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with congressional redistricting, I found a number of
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states have every two years, and I think that is a
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helpful thing in Kansas, and the Federal Court in Kansas
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permitted the Kansas census to be used in determining
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the congressional districts. This has a very sensible
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effect because you don't have the jarring upset as you
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have when the thing is done every ten years.
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For example, if you do it every two years, the
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change is gradual and you can make allowance for it. If
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it's done every ten years, you suddenly find that someone
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has gone from eight delegates to six delegates, and this
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would help a lot with your planning and zoning people in
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the counties and so forth. I don't know what the cost
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would be, but I think this would be a very desirable
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