Every ten years, after the US Census, Lake County, Illinois uses a quirky process to determine term lengths for its county board members.<br /><br />According to Medium, they call for '21 balls,' 'inscribed with the number of each County Board District,' and an 'opaque container.' <br /><br />After redrawing district boundaries, the Chief Judge of the 19th Judicial Circuit must randomly choose three groups of seven districts each from the 21 total districts.<br /><br />Each group corresponds to a different schedule for district representatives’ term lengths in the next ten years: 2–4–2, 4–2–4, or 2–4–4-year consecutive terms.<br /><br />This game of electoral Bingo is Lake County’s whimsical way of reconciling four-year terms with ten-year redistricting cycles.
