While considering the Alabama case, the Supreme Court had put a hold on a similar lower court ruling that Louisiana’s districts must be redrawn to create a second majority-Black district. That’s likely to be lifted. A federal judge in Georgia last year also said some of its congressi...
Louisiana legislators redrew the state’s six U.S. House districts in January to create two majority-Black districts, rather than one, after a federal judge ruled that the state’s previous plan diluted the voting power of Black residents, who make up about one-...
African American citizens of Bossier Parish, Louisiana, objected to a redistricting plan drawn up by the Bossier Parish School Board, which had been precleared under Section 5 by the Justice Department. They argued that Section 2 barred the plan because it denied the creation of several majority...
Shall Ward One Fire Protection District No. One of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, renew, levy and collect a tax not exceeding 7.00 mills for a period not to exceed ten (10) years beginning in 2023, in excess of and in addition to other taxes levied by the District, with collections from t...
Only two states, Louisiana and Texas, contain counties with completely paperless voting systems. Election-deciding swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — all maintain paper records, which are used in post-election audits in 48 states. Paper...
In Louisiana, it depends on the voter. For example, a voter who goes in person to apply for an absentee ballot must do so between 12 and 6 days before the election (LSA-R.S. 18:1309[a][1]); a voter who registers for an absentee ballot by mail must get the registration form to...
By the time of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Civil Rights Cases, Northern support for Reconstruction in the South had waned, allowing white Democrats to retake control of all but three Southern states—South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana—by 1876, often through increased intimidation and...
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and yeah, the turkey is awesome, but the sides really make the meal.
Party, Constituency, and Congressional Voting: A Study of Legislative Behavior in the United States House of Representatives - 1968, Page ix by W. Wayne Shannon. Read Party, Constituency, and Congressional Voting: A Study of Legislative ... BWW Shannon - Louisiana State University Press 被引量...
Courts in Alabama and Florida ruled recently that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents. Legal challenges to congressional districts are also ongoing in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. ...