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State Boundary Case Study
If the state boundary was to change then basically everything would change. It would change the geographic info and the population. We would be looking at either a good or a bad change in the total population. For example: if state 5 were to change its boundaries into state 4 and 6 it would add 15000 from 4 and state 6 would add 5000 more people then the number of seats would change.
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