Abstract: The 2002 California Voting Rights Act requires that jurisdictions that elect board members at-large establish single-member election districts in order to give more political power to groups protected under Section “Statistical Methods Currently Used to Identify Racially Polarized Voting” of the Federal Voting Rights Act if (1) minorities comprise a substantial share of the population and (2) there is evidence of racially polarized voting (also called “racial bloc voting” and “minority vote dilution”). This paper describes two methods that have been accepted by the courts for identifying racially polarized voting. These are the “homogeneous precincts” and the “ecological regression” methods.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-10-10
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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