Selma’s Ward 5 came together Saturday evening to get some wanted information on the changes recently brought about the city’s redistricting.

Selma City Ward 5 Councilmember Sam Randolph held a community meeting at the Rangedale Community Building with the sole purpose of discussing redistricting.

Randolph, whose district gained 285 new citizens, said it’s vital to get the information out because the new districts determine where citizens will vote.

“It’s important because the citizens need to know where they need to go to vote,” Randolph said. “We have made many changes in the ward. Over 2,000 citizens in the whole city have been affected by this, so it’s important to have meetings to let the citizens know where they go to vote at and the new polling places for them so there won’t be confusion come election time.”

While Randolph’s district lost previously held areas, such as those near Minter, it brought in 285 people — mostly from District 7 — raising the ward’s population to 2,558.

City election officials and the Dallas County Board of Registrars will be sending out information to let voters know their new polling place, and flyers and other information will be distributed to spread the word, while Randolph said he will also take it upon himself to inform his new constituents.

“With myself personally, my new constituents in Ward 5, I’m going to set up a meeting with them to explain to them where they’re going to be voting at, so they’ll feel less stressed trying to figure out where they go vote,” Randolph said. “We don’t want our citizens to go to a polling place and then find out they’re supposed to be voting somewhere else. They might get upset and then say ‘well, I’m just not going to vote.’ So we’re trying to make everybody happy.”