PENNSYLVANIA, April 20 - quorum. Seven or more affirmative votes shall be required for

any official action. The final redistricting plan must be

approved by at least seven affirmative votes that must include

at least one vote of a member registered from each of the two

largest political parties in this Commonwealth based on

registration and one vote from a member who is not registered

with either of the two largest political parties.

(j) To begin the process of preparing information necessary

to the redistricting process, the commission shall:

(1) Acquire all necessary and appropriate information,

review and evaluate available facilities and develop programs

and procedures, which may include the use of software, in

preparation for drawing congressional and legislative

redistricting plans on the basis of each Federal census. The

commission shall make the information available to the public in

a manner prescribed by law.

(2) As soon as possible after December 31 of each year

ending in zero, obtain from the United States Census Bureau the

population data needed for legislative redistricting that the

Census Bureau is required to provide the Commonwealth under 13

U.S.C. § 141 (relating to population and other census

information) and use that data to assign a population figure

based upon census data to each geographic and political unit

described pursuant to subparagraph (i). Upon completing that

task, the commission shall begin the preparation of

congressional and legislative redistricting plans as required by

this subsection and subsection (k). The commission shall use the

data obtained to prepare:

(i) Necessary descriptions of census blocks, voting

districts, wards, municipalities and counties that census data

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