Not 20 only did the COVID-19 pandemic prevent the Commissioners from meeting face-to-face, but the Commission’s schedule was compressed by several months as a result of a delay in receiving the census data and a statutory change in the deadline for submission of the redistricting plan to the Legislature. [...] the extent of any history of official discrimination in the state or political 22 subdivision that touched the right of the members of the minority group to register, to vote, or otherwise to participate in the democratic process; 23 2. [...] the extent to which members of the minority group have been elected to public office in the jurisdiction[;] 11 12 [8.] whether there is a significant lack of responsiveness on the part of elected officials to the particularized needs of the members of the minority 13 group[; and] 14 [9.] whether the policy underlying the state or political subdivision's use of 15 such voting qualification, prerequ. [...] The primer chronicles the “parchment promise” of the Fifteenth Amendment, the unchecked proliferation of 23 literacy tests, poll taxes, and “good-morals” requirements, the statutory effort to “banish the blight of racial discrimination in voting,” the judiciary’s narrow interpretation of the original VRA, and the corrective amendment 24 proposed by Senator Bob Dole that reinvigorated the fight aga. [...] History of Official Discrimination 16 The first Senate Factor requires an evaluation of the history of official 17 discrimination in the state or political subdivision that impacted the right of Latinos to 18 register, to vote, or otherwise to participate in the democratic process.
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