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Show Committeeman Notes Springville Voting Districts Out of Proportion With Precinct Population , By Victor Frandsen I have recently served on a committee com-mittee which has studied population popula-tion changes in Utah county and has re-districted the county for representatives to the state legislature. leg-islature. This study has emphasized empha-sized to me the fact that voting districts in Springville have grown farther and farther from equal proportion of the precinct's population. pop-ulation. During the approximate fourteen years since the last adjustment ad-justment was made, certain areas have grown rapidly while others have hardly grown at all. There are now eight districts, but nearly half of the growth of the community for the past fourteen four-teen years has been the area east of Main street between Fourth South and Seventh South streets; so this area, known as the First district, has around a third of, Springville's population. ' j Recently Orem has re-districted their precinct for voting and now has twelve districts. This has made it possible for more voters to vote nearer home and for the judges of election to count and report the election results more rapidly. A few years ago the dominant church of Springville made a study of population distribution in Springville and divided the town into nine wards. These areas vary judging from their church membership mem-bership from about 521 to 850; however, the actual population group of adults would vary much less than this because the two largest wards are very high in proportion of children while the j smallest ward (Ninth) is low in such proportion. I believe that these ward lines are well known to the whole community com-munity whether or not these division divi-sion lines effect their church affiliations. af-filiations. I believe that these well-established well-established lines should be the basis for dividing the voting districts dis-tricts of Springville and that in the parts of town where the numbering num-bering of wards and voting districts dis-tricts does not correspond that the numbering of voting districts should be changed. I propose that we who are interested inter-ested circulate a petition to effect such a change and present it to the Utah county commission well in advance of the making up of the registration lists for next year's presidential election. |