Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: The court of appeals in this case clearly did not apply proportional representation standard. did not rule that the commissioner violated Section merely because blacks had you been elected to the position. Instead. used the totality circumstances analysis provided for i Gingles The county proportional representation argu- meni red herring Gingles and the Geographic Compactness Stan dard Thornburg Gingles, supra, 478 U.S. at 46. the plaintiffs alleged their complaint that the legislative decision T employ multi -member rather thar single member districts the contested jurisdictions diluted their voting strength in violation of Section Under the circumstances it was appropriate for this Court tequire plaintiffs to prove that their iniury was as they stated to be and that they could iT Fact c ...