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IOWA CITY — Johnson County’s Temporary Redistricting Committee is preparing to submit its precinct plan, the first step in the process of changing how county supervisors are elected after a new state law requiring the change was passed by Republicans earlier this year.

Senate File 75 requires Iowa counties with populations of 125,000 or more or which are home to one of Iowa’s three public universities to elect their county supervisors by districts, rather than at-large. All three counties — Johnson, Black Hawk and Story — currently have Democratic-leaning boards and elect supervisors countywide.

The committee worked with county staff to develop a precinct plan that was presented to the publi

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