HELENA, Mont. (AP) – A trio of federal judges adopted a new map Tuesday under which Montana will elect members of the Public Service Commission this year, unless the Montana Legislature acts to update the map used to elect the five-member board to regulate monopoly utilities. The ruling came in a case that challenged the current map – which was last updated in 2003 – because the districts varied too greatly in population. The judges ruled in January that the population differences in the 2003 map violated the Constitutional guarantee of one person, one vote.
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