PDF of 73 page memo regarding redistricting

Submitted by PAAMember on December 7, 2005 - 9:01am. ::


I've seen a lot of info on this, but never the actual link to the 73 page memo - here it is.

later,
TOM BLACKWELL <>
wrote:
Click here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120101927.html

> The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department's voting section, said the redistricting plan
> illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts. It also said the plan eliminated several other
> districts in which minorities had a substantial, though not necessarily decisive, influence in elections.
>
> "The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing
that the proposed congressional
> redistricting plan does not have a discriminatory effect," the memo concluded.

73 page memo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/texasDOJmemo.pdf



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