41.   When state lawmakers failed last month to draw new districts for themselves, the chore fell to the board, according to the state constitution.

42.   White Democrats might oppose using sampling data lest it would draw districts that favor minority candidates.

43.   Disputes over local voting districts became a constitutional issue earlier this year when President Nelson Mandela decreed that the central government would appoint people to draw districts.

44.   In some states, independent commissions have the job of drawing the districts and in most states, the plans end up in extensive legal battles.

45.   The way districts have been drawn up, the Serb-controlled region is divided and encompassed in two wider districts.

46.   Blacks and Hispanics have argued that white lawmakers in power have historically drawn up districts in order to dilute the possible influence of minorities.