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that a single-man member district.
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MR. ENEY: Yes, but in a situation where you
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could have a larger number, is there a disadvantage in
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having a multiple number from the same district, except
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the necessity of avoiding having too many districts?
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SENATOR HUGHES: I don't see anything wrong
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if you have, say, three or four delegates in a county,
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that you divide it up in three or four districts. So,
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you have single-member districts there; but what is it
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we have now, a minimum of what?
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DELEGATE HANDEL: A minimum of four.
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SENATOR JAMES: I'd be careful with that,
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putting it in the Constitution, for the simple reason,
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in Senate Bill 5, you remember we put a minimum of not
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less than four, not more than eight.
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DELEGATE MANDEL: And it didn't work.
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SENATOR JAMES: It didn't work because when
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we had to divide up Montgomery County and Baltimore
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County, we found one had 22 delegates. So, we had to
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develop a system where we had to put two delegates in
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one district to make it come out, as I recall.
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