Voting Rights

Date

1990

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Texas Tech Law Review

Abstract

Examines the Fifth Circuit opinion on voting rights during the survey period. The decisions covered a variety of issues such as the standard of review and the required proof in voting rights cases, the use of voting age population as the measure of a minority group's strength, the elections that may be examined in assessing a claim of racially polarized voting, and the inclusion of judicial election in the Voting Rights Act.

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Keywords

Voting, Constitution, Elections, Voting Rights Act, One-person one-vote standard, Judicial elections

Citation

21 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 565