District Court, Splitting 2-1, Finds Texas Congressional Districts Violate VRA (user search)
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Brittain33
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« on: March 13, 2017, 08:15:24 AM »
I'm shocked the courts found there can be 3 VRA districts in the Metroplex when Republicans were confident they could pack all of the Metroplex's minority voters into 1 vote sink and hold all other districts in the area for Republicans. I know voter turnout is extremely variable in Texas...
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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2017, 09:07:16 AM »
« Edited: March 16, 2017, 09:14:39 AM by Brittain33 »
It is hard, intuitively, to understand that a district held entirely within Hidalgo County (pop. 842,000) is unkosher because it constitutes packing. When you have a county larger than a congressional district that is 91% Hispanic...
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