<x-flowed>Just to add to Brian's response, you can go to the website of the Civil Rights Division's Voting Section and look up the list of Section 5 objections.  There you will many examples of objections to majority vote requirements.  The key issues to determine whether such a change is retrogressive are whether voting is polarized and if so to what extent, the election history, and the size of the minority electorate.

Mark Posner

----- Original Message ----- From: "ban@richardwinger.com" <richardwinger@yahoo.com>
To: <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: question about voting rights act and run-off primaries

I am not very well informed about the voting rights
act.  Can anyone who is, help me with this question?

Is there any precedent that suggests that if a state
which does not now have a run-off primary were to
institute one, and this state is a covered
jurisdiction, would this state have a problem with the
Voting Rights Act if it tried to implement a run-off
partisan primary?

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