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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Percentage Of Voting Population Doesn’t Guarantee Seats In Legislature

The African-American witnesses at Thursday’s hearing on the proposed legislative redistricting map consistently made the case that there should have been 14 predominately black Senate districts out of 47, not the 12 proposed. But the decision by a three-judge federal court the next day on the congressional districts maps undermined some of these arguments based on the percentage of the population.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You should be a land owner to have a vote.