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MS. EOFF : IÓve been through two sets of thinking. At first I was just thinking of a very simple form, like you said, just to ask, ÐHave you addressed the criteria in these two provisions, and if not, what is your justification for your map?Ñ And that would be it. But then after thinking about it again, we thought---And the language on there is exact language from the law, itÓs nothing we just dreamed up. We put it all there thinking people would make sure they have addressed as much possible, and where they didnÓt they give us an explanation, so it would make our review of the map a little bit simpler; although we would have to check that it is not mis- information. CHR. SIRACUSA: Are both citations of the law on the Redistricting web site? MS. EOFF : Yes. I can make them more clearly, right on the front. We can make it real easy to access the laws on the web site. Maybe I was a little bit blurry, because I havenÓt seen what a map looks like when we receive it. I have never seen what Pat would receive; I didnÓt even know exactly where it goes when someone pushes Ðsubmit.Ñ I donÓ map. MR. MIDDLESWORTH : Can we get a form so that we can vote on it at our next meeting? MS. EOFF : This conversation helped, just to see that you would like submissions to go to the Office of Elections, from there they will get on to our agenda through me and we will consider some sort of a form. MR. MIDDLESWORTH : I think we should have on all our agenda going forward, consideration of maps. We are going to start making maps. IÓve got some already that I would like to start discussing. So we need to have that on our agenda. Then we can take whoeverÓs map they are. Now, we will know whose maps our own maps are, but I think your idea of keeping them anonymous, the publicly submitted maps, is fine. MS. EOFF: And if you would prefer yours remain anonymous, we can do that too. We can just give them a number. MR. MELROSE: I think they should all be anonymous. MR. MIDDLESWORTH: IÓm not so sure; I think you ought to defend it. MR. MELROSE: You are welcome to defend it, but it doesnÓt have to become the Middlesworth plan. I donÓt want the Melrose plan. I think the challenge here is---I feel like these are answers the Elections office should have given us already; about what does a submitted plan look like. You have had the web site for a while; you know that is going to come. So, people are going to be on the web site, and then there would be an additional form for them to submit? I would rather see a form that gets attached to these maps that we then review and do a check off of. Just practically speaking, if they re on the web site, they hit Ðsubmit,Ñ where does this other form come from? Is it going to be attached to this somehow for submittal? Frankly, I really donÓt care who they come from, and I notice already you are going to assign them a number and not a 30