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The Houston school district, which has an at-large voting system for school board members, was ordered to create a new system ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 stipulates that a violation would ... including the three Gingles conditions and senate factors two, five and seven, to show that, based on the totality of the ...
As secretary of state of California, I know our elections are not skewed by fraud. But this legislation would skew results by ...
A Fifth Circuit appellate panel on Wednesday appeared somewhat divided on claims that a Texas election law could discourage ...
In the years surrounding the 1965 passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), Black Americans ... of stringent remedies” that included Section 2, which barred racial discrimination in voting nationwide, ...
A pair of Trump voters in Pennsylvania has launched a lawsuit in federal court over a series of death threats sent to them and others in the lead-up to the ...
The partisan complexion of Alabama’s congressional delegation has changed from six Republicans and one Democrat to five ... rights as other states because of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
which culminated in the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of the early '60s that finally began clamping down on overt discrimination. But after two years of racial unrest that began in 1965 ...
The partisan complexion of Alabama’s Congressional delegation has changed from six Republicans and one lone Democrat to five Republicans ... does not have the same rights as other states because of ...
The Democracy Policy team is advancing an agenda to win structural reforms that strengthen the U.S. system and give everyone ...