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75 <br /> TABLE 1 . NORTH CAROLINA JURISDICTIONS SUBJECT TO REDISTRICTING <br /> Subject to Redistricting Not Subject to Redistricting <br /> COUNTIES(30) CITIES(41) SCHOOL BOARDS(32) COUNTIES USING CITIES USING RESIDENCY <br /> Anson Albemarle Alexander RESIDENCY DISTRICTS(24) DISTRICTS(26) <br /> Bladen Benson Anson Bertie Angier <br /> Camden Cary Beaufort Brunswick Archdale <br /> Carteret(blended) Charlotte Bladen Chatham Atkinson <br /> Caswell Clinton Caswell Cherokee Ayden <br /> Chowan Dunn Charlotte- Currituck Belhaven <br /> Columbus Edenton Mecklenburg Dare Bessemer City <br /> Craven Elizabeth City Cumberland Franklin Bladenboro <br /> Cumberland Enfield Duplin Gaston Calabash <br /> Duplin Fayetteville Durham Gates Cherryville <br /> Edgecombe Fremont Edenton-Chowan Henderson Concord <br /> Forsyth Goldsboro Edgecombe Hertford Durham <br /> Granville Greensboro Franklin Hyde Eden <br /> Guilford Greenville Granville Johnston Fletcher <br /> Halifax Henderson Guilford Macon Gastonia <br /> Harnett High Point Harnett Moore Hickory <br /> Lee Jacksonville Hickory City Northampton Lewiston-Woodville <br /> Lenoir Kings Mountain Iredell-Statesville Fender Lincolnton <br /> Mecklenburg Lake Waccamaw Lenoir Randolph Morganton <br /> Montgomery Laurinburg Madison Rutherford Mt.Airy <br /> Nash Lexington Martin Scotland Sanford <br /> Pamlico Longview Montgomery Surry Shelby <br /> Pasquotank Lumberton Nash–Rocky Mount Watauga Southport <br /> Pitt Mooresville Newton– Wake Stanley <br /> Robeson New Bern Conover City Wayne Trinity <br /> Sampson Plymouth Pamlico Valdese <br /> Vance Princeville Pitt Weddington <br /> Washington Raleigh Robeson COUNTIES,CITIES,AND <br /> Wilson Randleman Rockingham SCHOOL BOARDS USING <br /> Wayne Reidsville Union AT-LARGE VOTING <br /> Roanoke Rapids Vance <br /> Rocky Mount Wake All the rest <br /> Siler City Wilson <br /> Smithfield Winston-Salem/ <br /> Statesville Forsyth <br /> St. Pauls <br /> Tarboro <br /> may be covered by local Thomasville lenged the at-large system in county,by following procedures laid out <br /> acts, but none of them Williamston court on some legal basis—most in the statutes, to change a number of <br /> Wilson <br /> relate to the election of likely as a violation of the aspects of its elections, including the <br /> city council members, Winston-Salem Voting Rights Act of 1965—and number of members of the governing <br /> county commissioners, either prevailed in the lawsuit, board, the length of their terms, and <br /> or school board mem- thereby obtaining a court order, whether they are elected at large or from <br /> bers. Cities,counties,and school systems or reached a court-approved settlement districts.6 There is no comparable home- <br /> are creatures of the General Assembly, with the jurisdiction,resulting in a con- rule provision for school systems. <br /> and the General Assembly is free to sent decree signed by the challengers,the <br /> impose on any of them an electoral sys- jurisdiction,and the judge. How were the particular boundaries <br /> tem of its choosing. Third,the city or the county(but not for your current districts set? <br /> Second, the city, the county, or the a school system) may have voluntarily As with the use of electoral districts,the <br /> school system may have moved from at- moved from at-large elections to district current boundaries for your districts <br /> large elections to district elections elections, using "home rule" powers may have been drawn in one of three <br /> through a court order or a consent granted by the General Assembly. The ways. First, they may have been set in <br /> decree.That is,someone may have chal- home-rule statutes permit a city or a the local act that moved you from at- <br /> 4 POPULAR GOVERNMENT SPRING 200I <br />