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Ethically diverse than the board has seen. >> it includes lewis marano the first hispanic elected joseph kenner the first african american to win a seat. but is this the result of cumulative voting or is lewis marino the first hispanic candidate to connect with voters? the consensus is he would have won regardless. >> mr. marino had the needed qualifications to be elected on his own merits. >> joseph can another az he campaigned with fellow republicans a republicans. >> we did it the old fashioned way went door to door every single way. >> cumulative measure is intensity of the bill not so muc...

Percent hispanic 42 percent caucasian and 8 or 9 percent african american. >> until this year no hispanic has been elected to the board of trust des and only two hispanics have ever been on the ballot. the town's mayor offers a reason for this discrepancy. >> most are not united states citizens yet. the census estimates 22 percent of the grogroup>> they sri late section 2 of the voting rights act. a hispanic failed to win a seat on the board in 2001. >> as a result of the complaint he filed with the department of justice the department of justice came in and filed a suit. the department receiv...

As they ee fit. here's an example of how that works. oo iks votes a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates, or vote 6 times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chester's six board of trustees. but the compromise was costly. the town pent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedure. and despite efforts to target hispanics rotor turnouts was only marginally impacted. >> we can't recover. it's money we flushed basically. i would have rather had even us use streets and sidewalk...

>> sean: the voting rights act of 1965 was created to combat >> does the law have unintended consequences? ainsley earhardt ms. more. >> in recent years the justice department has been using it differently than the writers intended. >> this is port chest ton, new york. it's a small community making national headlines because of the unusual local elections. in you are a registered voter you have 6 votes when it comes to electing the 6 member board of trustees. you can vote 6 times for one candidate or split it up among the candidates. when the justice department came in and said the villages fa...