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4.Districts that Result <br />In addition to these state limits on the procedures used to adop <br />law imposes limits on the districts that result. Federal law re <br />populations and to allow racial and language minorities a fair o <br />their choice. Undercertain circumstances, federal law may requir <br />districting principles.” In a given state, the law may require <br />territory, that they be compact, that house districts be nested <br />not divide political subdivisions or communities of interest, or <br />competitive.Id. <br />All these limits are intended to restrain the majority from taki <br />position when drawing district lines. <br />II.Draw Districts of Equal Population <br />A.Use Official Census Bureau Population Counts <br />1.Alternative Population Counts <br />The first requirement for any redistricting plan to stand up in <br />substantially equal population. But how do you know the populat <br />official Census Bureau population counts from the 2010 census. <br />It is true that some legislatures have chosen to use data other <br />population counts to draw their districts and have had their pla <br />example, back in 1966, Hawaii used the number of registered vote <br />population, to draw its legislative districts, and had its plan <br />case of Burns v. Richardson,384 U.S. 73. But there the Court found that the results based on <br />registered voters were not substantially different from the resu <br />A state may conduct its own census on which to base its redistri <br />a 1979 Kansas legislative redistricting plan based on the state’ <br />by a federal district court in the case of Bacon v. Carlin, 575 F. Supp. 763 (D. Kan. 1983), aff’d 466 <br />U.S. 966 (1984). And in 1986, a Massachusetts legislative redistrict <br />was upheld by a federal district court in the case of McGovern v. Connolly, 637 F. Supp. 111 (D. <br />Mass 1986). <br />Late in the decade, a federal court may find that local governme <br />accurate reflection of current population than old census counts <br />developing redistricting plans before the next census. Garza v. County of Los Angeles, 756 F. Supp. <br />1298 (C.D. Cal.1990). <br />7 <br /> <br />