Today's Video Headlines: 7/9/24
A New York town leader slammed a series of race-based lawsuits trying to uproot up the voting process in several towns – calling the litigation an effort to bump conservatives from office.
There are scores of towns, villages and school districts that have an at-large voting system — where voters of a municipality for all their government representatives as opposed to having the area split into districts or neighborhoods.Civil rights lawyers have sued at least three towns for allegedly blocking the election of black or Hispanic candidates by using “at-large” elections.
Voting rights lawyer Jeffrey Wice was hired by the local governments to research the matter, and he recommended that Mount Pleasant and the others scrap the at-large voting systems.
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