[EL] Kinston case, more news

[john.k.tanner at gmail.com]

Did these get through?
------Original Message------
From: Abigail Thernstrom
To: John tanner gmail
Cc: Rick Hasen
Cc: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
Cc: law-election at UCI.EDU
Subject: Re: [EL] Kinston case, more news
Sent: Jul 8, 2011 4:21 PM



	I don't see what adjustment could be made in the Kinston case that  
would eliminate the allegedly discriminatory feature to which DOJ  
objected.

	Party affiliation is either indicated or not.

	Abby

Abigail Thernstrom
Vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
www.thernstrom.com


On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:48 PM, john.k.tanner at gmail.com wrote:

> I don't believe that the earlier GA case was a straight grant of  
> preclearance to the same plan to which the Department had objected.   
> As I understand, GA made some adjustment to their scheme that  
> satisfied the objection.  That would place the GA case among the  
> many declaratory judgment actions that have been resolved by  
> eliminating the discriminatory feature.
>
> I don't recall a section 5 objection that was withdrawn without some  
> change, or a Voting Section case that the Department dismissed  
> without obtaining some relief.
>
> (I understand that some believe the GA adjustment did not in fact  
> solve the problem, but I have no idea whether that view is well- 
> founded.)
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
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> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:40:15
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