Government,
Civil Rights
Oct. 4, 2018
Federal judge declines to halt city’s new district elections
The order is the latest defeat for challengers of the California Voting Rights Act, which is changing municipal elections in California.
A federal judge has declined to halt election redistricting in the city of Poway, rejecting a former mayor’s complaints of “racial gerrymandering” in a voting rights law that’s altering municipal elections across California.
The order from U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes in San Diego says preventing the 48,000-population city from using a new, four-district map for its Nov. 6 election would be “expensive, confusing, and disrupt...
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