§ 12222 Precinct Boundary Restrictions

• •Precinct lines must stay inside any supervisorial, congressional, senatorial, Assembly, board of equalization, judicial, city, ward, or city council district.
• •Precincts cannot cross the borders of those other districts.
• •If a precinct doesn’t have enough qualified people for its board, it can be merged with an adjoining precinct.

A county tries to create a new precinct that would split a city’s council district in half.

Because the law says a precinct can’t cross a city or council district boundary, the county must redraw the precinct so it stays completely inside one council district. If the new precinct only has a few eligible voters and can’t fill its board, the law also lets the county combine it with the next precinct.