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>> dilute the power of the hispanic vote and hand two council seats to the majority white voting population, insuring the citywide majority white voting population could ban together and retain their power. >> what this effectively does is gives the south part of town or the anglo part of town the majority in council. >> it turns out, this is precisely the sort of thing section 5 of the voting rights act was designed to block. in fact, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg cited this precise type of discrimination from a presection 5 world when the voting rights act came before the court e...

That we need and be able to be the majority. he doesn't like it. >> dilute the power of the hispanic vote and hand two council seats to the majority white voting population, insuring the city-wide majority white voting population could band together and retain their power. >> what this effectively does is give the south part of town the majority of council. >> it turns out, this is precisely the sort of thing section 5 of the voting rights act was designed to block. in fact, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg cited this precise type of discrimination for a pre-section 5 world when the v...

Republican ibt. let's see if we can get this up on the screen. top-two ary. everybody gets the same ballot, regardless of party, top two candidates regardless of party get through. this is a very tense situation for democrats. dana rohrabacher is moving ahead. the question is who is going to be behind him? you have a democrat running in second place. you can see the difference there. you're looking at less than 400 votes separating the front-running democrat. the issue here is they're just splitting the republican party california.trict, this part of rohrabacher, they see he's controversial. d...