Lisa R Handley

• Minority Voting Equality: The 65 Percent Rule in Theory and Practice

  Open Access•Kimball Brace, B Grofman et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•1988•Cited by: 16•References: 2

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  In order to provide minorities with a realistic opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, an apparently obvious step is to create districts in which the minority equals half the population. A number of factors, however, make this a false equality. As a consequence, courts have used a “65 percent” rule, suggesting that equality of the voting population is achieved only when the overall population of a district is nearly two‐thirds minority.…

• Minority Voting Equality: The 65 Percent Rule in Theory and Practice

  Open Access•Kimball Brace, B Grofman et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•1988•Cited by: 16•References: 2

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  In order to provide minorities with a realistic opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, an apparently obvious step is to create districts in which the minority equals half the population. A number of factors, however, make this a false equality. As a consequence, courts have used a “65 percent” rule, suggesting that equality of the voting population is achieved only when the overall population of a district is nearly two‐thirds minority.…

• Minority Voting Equality: The 65 Percent Rule in Theory and Practice

  Open Access•Kimball Brace, B Grofman et al.•ARTICLE•Law & Policy•1988•Cited by: 16•References: 2

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  In order to provide minorities with a realistic opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, an apparently obvious step is to create districts in which the minority equals half the population. A number of factors, however, make this a false equality. As a consequence, courts have used a “65 percent” rule, suggesting that equality of the voting population is achieved only when the overall population of a district is nearly two‐thirds minority.…

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