Labels:book | bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: pud given the racial bloc voting in the county it 1 unlikely that aue ever will The historical back kground the adoption of the sole commissioner system shows that was enacted at time when blacks were excluded from the electorate and white supremacy was systematically maintained throughout the state The "sequence of events" shows that at-large elec- tions 'T Bleckley County were made into more secure mechanism for discrimination bv the enactment majority vate requirement general assembly 1964 thwart black voter registration pue dilute minor- ity voting strength. Dillard Crenstuaw County, 640 F.Supp. 1347 {M.D A 1986) for example, the court invalidated at-large elections ir several Alabama counties based upon evidence that statewide numbered place law enacted ir 1961 had tainted at-large sy ...
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