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By JUHJN UOOLKICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Thirty five of the 140 members of the Virginia General Assembly will find their popularity with colleagues and others soaring in the next year.
They’re the members of the Privileges and Elections Committees in the House of Delegates and State Senate.
The P&E members, who deal mainly with election law changes, will have the task of coming up with proposed redistricting plans for the House, the Senate and state congressional districts, which will be considered by the General Assembly during a special session in April, 1991.
Already overtures are being made to more senior committee members by political interests who want to curry their favor when election boundaries are redrawn to reflect a rapidly growing and increasingly suburban population.
Redistricting occurs once every ten years following the national census. Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that election districts should reflect, with only a small allowable variance, one-man, one-vote principles, the process has gotten infinitely more difficult and controversial.
In fact, the last two times Virginia went through redistricting, in 1971 and 1981, some of the results were overturned by courts and new starts had to be made.
And many think it is almost inevitable that no matter how the boundaries are finally drawn next year,
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