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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 2914690" data-attributes="member: 7966">Honestly, I have not paid much attention to this issue.It appears there are a couple (or more) lawsuits alleging that the Repug controlled Georgia legislature did indeed use race as a factor that had negative effects on AA getting to elect someone of their choosing.Those two districts were redrawn with one goal, Clarke said: “Reduce the ability of African-American and other minority voters to elect candidates of their choice.”Bill Custer, a partner at Bryan Cave law firm in Atlanta, who is helping bring the suit, said, “we need to, and are able to, prove that race was used as the predominant factor for drawing the district lines.”<a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/lawsuit-house-districts-gerrymandered-remove-minority-voters/PMOeDu8anSharNAjwe1ECK/" target="_blank">Lawsuit: GA House districts ‘gerrymandered’ to remove minority voters</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 2914690, member: 7966"] Honestly, I have not paid much attention to this issue. It appears there are a couple (or more) lawsuits alleging that the Repug controlled Georgia legislature did indeed use race as a factor that had negative effects on AA getting to elect someone of their choosing. [I] Those two districts were redrawn with one goal, Clarke said: “Reduce the ability of African-American and other minority voters to elect candidates of their choice.” Bill Custer, a partner at Bryan Cave law firm in Atlanta, who is helping bring the suit, said, “we need to, and are able to, prove that race was used as the predominant factor for drawing the district lines.”[/I] [URL='http://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/lawsuit-house-districts-gerrymandered-remove-minority-voters/PMOeDu8anSharNAjwe1ECK/']Lawsuit: GA House districts ‘gerrymandered’ to remove minority voters[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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