In Louisiana, qualified political parties with at least 5% of the registration elect committee members at the presidential primary. Louisiana’s next presidential primary is March 24, 2012. Louisiana law expects these major parties to draw their own district boundaries for the election of state committeemembers. The Republican Party is still using districts for these internal party office elections that are based on the 2000 census.

Recently, a member of the Republican Party state committee filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State to freeze the Republican Party committee member elections until the party draws new districts based in the 2010 census. See this story. On November 15, the judge in the case asked the Republican Party to intervene. If the Republican Party does not draw new districts, a fallback is to use the new legislative districts instead.