A voting rights battle in a school board 'coup'
A voting rights battle in a school board 'coup'
- October 25, 2020
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, The New York Times, Oct. 25, 2020
“When we look at elections there, they look very much like a racial census,” said Bernard Grofman, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who was appointed by the court to redraw the voting map. … The map, produced by Mr. Grofman, the university professor appointed by the court, signified a major reversal of the last one: Four of its seven seats would be in places where African-Americans were more than 60 percent of the population.
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/us/voting-rights-georgia.html.
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