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Show County Clerk Completes Vast Renumbering of County Voting Districts election. Under the new setup there will be 356 active voting districts in the county, an increase of 26 active districts over the 1956 total of 330. Under the new system all numbered num-bered lettered districts have been eliminated. There has been consolidation con-solidation of districts where population pop-ulation has diminished voting activity ac-tivity and there has been division of heavily populated districts to provide as many as four new districts dis-tricts in areas where one district functioned previously. Another feature of the project is renumbering of districts to provide consecutive numbering for adjacent districts. Under the previously existing plan, numbers num-bers were scattered over the county as new districts arose. Under Mr. Keddington's new plan numbers have been reserved re-served in areas where growth is expected. Numbers have been reserved to take care of expected popula- tion increases for at least 20 years, without again using lettered let-tered designation, Mr. Kedding-ton Kedding-ton explained. "Folders and maps have been prepared to hswo the new voting district numbers by representative representa-tive and senatorial areas and s soon as the general public forgets the old and learns the new voting district numbers in which they reside the election procedures should become easier of operation," opera-tion," he said. Mr. Keddington recalled that (Continued on Page 8) ALVIN KEDDINGTON A vast project wherein all voting vot-ing districts in Salt Lake County were renumbered to bring them into line with current conditions has been completed by Salt Lake County Clerk Alvin Keddington. The project, carried out during I the past year and a half at no J cost to the taxpayers, has been a "labor of love" for the veteran ! county clerk. Mr. Keddington spent countless off duty hours making personal inspections of most of the county's coun-ty's more than 300 voting districts. dis-tricts. The result is a more sensible, more easily handled voting dis-1 trict setup which will be put to ! use for the first time county-: wide during the coming Novem- J ber elections. Salt Lake City vot- j ers used it during the recent city County Cleric Completes Vast Renumbering of County Voting Districts (Continued from Page 1) "during the 1956 general election there was revealed a condition of indecision and in some instances in-stances they were understandable understand-able mixups among voters as to which district they belonged, primarily due to the extensive use of numbered-lettered designation desig-nation assigned to newly created voting districts where rapid population pop-ulation growth was manifest. "Following the 1956 elections I embarked upon a survey of all voting districts in Salt Lake City and County areas with a program pro-gram to consolidate voting districts dis-tricts where industry has taken over where residences were formerly for-merly located and divide district areas where rapid population and subdivision activities was evident. "Purpose was to serve the districts dis-tricts more efficiently at election time and to provide district numbers num-bers to areas for the immediate future and also to provide un-assigned un-assigned numbers to be used in the distant future when population popula-tion growth would demand more active voting districts. "The redistricting-numbering program provides for voting districts dis-tricts adjacent to each other in numerical sequence rather than a jumbled patch-work numbering number-ing of districts that grew up with rapid population growth. "The Salt Lake City area was renumbered in time for use in the 1957 municipal election. The rest of the county, including incorporated in-corporated cities and towns will use the new numbers for the first time in 1958 general elections. elec-tions. "The overall project required the complete coverage and inspection in-spection of all Salt Lake County, the preparation by description of new district boundary lines, the preparation of new voting district dis-trict maps to show the district number changes, the elimination of all lettered voting districts, and the creation of unassigned numbers which in my opinion will serve future expansion for at least another 20-year period. "I am sure that after the voters registrars, judges of election and general public become aware of the new numbers of districts in which they reside and serve that the confusion incident to 'lettered 'let-tered districts' and isolated districts dis-tricts bearing consecutive numbers num-bers all being eliminated by the new numbered system that efforts ef-forts and time and study spent in the project will be justified as the program was confirmed and approved by the Board of County Coun-ty Commissioners." In subsequent weeks The Salt ; Lake Times will carry a com- 1 plete list of new district num- bers for the county. |