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longer introduce a new bill. I think this would account

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for the relative ease with which Nebraska legislators

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have grappled, if you will, with the bills that have been

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introduced.

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One other comment and then I am at your dis-

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posal. I would suspect, although this again is a ques-

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tion which is not incontrovertible, that the number of

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candidates a voter has to know when he goes to the polls

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to cast an intelligent vote has been slightly reduced in

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Nebraska, and this might be a possible argument for a

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unicameral system. I would venture to guess that this

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has been of some possible benefit to Nebraska. Whether

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it would be of similar benefit to other states, I have

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no idea.

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MR. ENEY: May I interrupt? Is this more from

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the unicameral or from the nonpartisan aspect, in the

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Nebraska system?

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MR. KENTNER: I would say from the unicameral

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rather than the nonpartisan.

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MR. SCANLAN: Wouldn't it also be the fact that

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they are single-member districts? Each one of them comes