This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Guillermo Ramos remembers seeing few elected leaders who looked like him while he was growing up in the 1980s in Farmers Branch, a fast-growing affluent suburb northwest of Dallas. Over the years, Latino representation continued to lag, […]
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The Supreme Court’s voting rights decision could reshape local government across Texas
The ruling weakened a key Voting Rights Act provision that’s driven change to election systems and local district boundaries across the state for decades.
