LAW 792 Lecture Notes - Lecture 51: Declaratory Judgment, Literacy Test, Protected Group
22 Dec 2019
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Factors that affect minority"s ability to elect its preferred candidate, size of the eligible minority population, relative turnout of racial groups, extent of racially polzarized voting, minority share of primary electorate, partisan composition of district. Holder: constitutional questions, trigger/coverage formula: fit of coverage to jurisdictions of concern, race consciousness in retrogression standard. The extent of any history of official discrimination in the state or political subdivision that touched the right of the members of the minority group to register, to vote, or otherwise to participate in the democratic process: 2. The extent to which voting in the elections of the state or political subdivision is racially polarized: 3. If there is a candidate slating process, whether the members of the minority group have been denied access to that process: 5. Whether political campaigns have been characterized by overt or subtle racial appeals: 7.
