Second, once the census numbers are in, state legislatures will begin early next year to redraw their internal electoral districts, as well as those for the House of Representatives in Washington, DC.

其次，一旦普查数字上报，各州立法机关在第二年初的时候会开始调整它们的选区，在华盛顿特区的众议院也是如此。

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Next summer, using the new census numbers, the 14 commissioners will redraw the state's electoral boundaries to make districts more geographically coherent and ethnically and politically diverse.

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Maine and Nebraska already have provisions that award electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district. (And each state's at-large vote-winner receives two additional electoral votes, corresponding to the state's two U.S. senators.) In this instance, Kerry could win Maine, but if he lost in one of the state's congressional districts, Bush would get that electoral vote.

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