Valdespino v. Alamo Heights Independent School District

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

The panel hereby withdraws its previous opinion and substitutes the following.

Plaintiffs-Appellants claim that the at-large, by-place, majority-vote elections for positions on the AHISD board of trustees dilute their votes as Hispanics in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1966. See 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1994) (as amended). The district court found that the Plaintiffs failed to make out a vote dilution claim because they could not prove, under the first Gingles threshold factor, that Hispanics are a “sufficiently large and geographically compact…