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By SEAN ADAMS
Arundrl ^rwsptpm Writer
The General Assembly is scheduled to return to Richmond Monday to determine, whether to attempt to override Gov. John N. Dalton’s veto of the latest House of Delegates redistricting plan.
Legislators said this week that while the 100-member House could most likely muster the two-thirds majority needed to override Dalton’s veto, it is less likely that two-thirds of the 40member Senate would support such a motion.
If the Democraticcontrolled assembly decides not to risk the embarrassment of failing to override the Republican governor’s veto, it will have to make changes in the plan, or develop a new plan altogether.
The legislature approved the latest plan Nov. 24, working under a Richmond federal court’s order to approve a redistricting plan by Feb. 1 that will meet population guidelines and other redistricting criteria.
But the governor vetoed the plan last Monday, indicating that the plan had not adequately met compactness and community of interest criteria. He strongly suggested that he would look more favorably upon a plan calling for 100 single-member House districts.
Although the House has so far rejected single-member district plans, legislators said that if the latest plan is
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