Legal Opinion
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided May 21, 2013No. Civil Action No. 3:11-cv-123-TCBPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
TIMOTHY C. BATTEN, SR., District Judge.
Plaintiffs, who include the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Fayette County Branch of the NAACP, and individuals who are African-American registered voters residing in Fayette County, claim that Fayette County’s at-large method of electing members to the Fayette County Board of Commissioners (“BOC”) and Board of Education (“BOE”) violates § 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, because the current voting scheme essentially guarantees that no African-American will be elected to either board. As an alternative to at-large voting,…
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