Texas - Justice Department Rejects Voting Maps - NYTimes.com

Texas - Justice Department Rejects Voting Maps - NYTimes.com: "The agency denied that the Congressional and House plans maintained or increased the ability of minority voters to elect their candidate of choice, as required by federal law. The Voting Rights Act requires map drawers to give special protection to districts that contain mostly minorities. Hispanics have accounted for two-thirds of the state’s growth since 2000. Democrats argued that the new maps simply packed Hispanics and blacks into the same districts."

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