Changes Made to Apple Valley Voting Precinct Boundaries

The Apple Valley City Council adopted changes to the city's voting precinct boundaries at last week's council meeting.

The new boundaries map is here, and also is attached to this story. The previous and now outdated boundaries map also is attached to this story.

You can find a list of 2012 polling places in Apple Valley here. Beginning in mid-May, the Minnesota Secretary of State's website will be updated so you can search for your precinct and polling place by your address, here.

Apple Valley will continue to have 16 voting precincts, though some of the number labels for those precincts are now different.

Cities had until April 3 to finalize their voting precinct boundaries in response to the state's redistricting plan, which was announced Feb. 21 by the Minnesota Supreme Court-appointed special redistricting panel.

State redistricting comes every 10 years, after the U.S. Census; the law requires all districts to be similar in population.

While Apple Valley district (57), and split into two state House districts (57A and 57B) under the plan, voting precinct boundaries cannot cross legislative district boundaries. The state did change the overall district boundaries to eliminate the Burnsville portion, add Coates and add part of Lakeville.

Read Apple Valley Patch's .

More information about voting in the city of Apple Valley is available here.

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