{"id":56020,"date":"2024-08-07T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56020"},"modified":"2024-08-07T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:02:35","slug":"how-you-draw-the-districts-determines-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56020","title":{"rendered":"How You Draw The Districts Determines The Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article about a recent decision by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals regarding voting districts. There was a county is Texas where a voting district was carved out specifically to make sure a minority-race Democrat would be elected. The Court ruled that was not acceptable.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In Petteway v. Galveston County<\/a>, the full appeals court concluded that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act<\/a> does not protect or \u201cauthorize coalition claims, either expressly or by implication.\u201d Coalition districts are districts in which no single minority group constitutes a majority of the voters. Instead, in those districts, there is a combination of different minority racial, ethnic, or language groups that make up a majority of voters.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The citizen population of Galveston County is 58% white, 22.5% Hispanic, and 12.5% black. Although the black population is concentrated in the center of the county, the Hispanic population<\/a> is evenly dispersed throughout. The county commission consists of five seats: four elected from specific districts and one elected at-large. Neither the black nor the Hispanic population of Galveston County is large enough and concentrated enough to draw a single commission district in which either group constitutes a majority of the voters in that particular district.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a result, in 1991, the county drew one coalition district that combined the black and Hispanic population in one district, which was represented by a black Democrat as of 2021. The other seats were all held by Republicans, including a black Republican. However, in the 2021 redistricting, the county eliminated the coalition district, which had a black citizen population of 31% and a Hispanic citizen<\/a> population of 24%.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NAACP and the Justice Department led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, along with a number of individual plaintiffs, sued Galveston claiming that this was a violation of federal law because coalition districts are required by Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This case is not the only one involving coalition districts. Please follow the link to the article for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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