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About 65% of Dodge City’s residents are Latino. But the election system, plaintiffs argue, allows the city’s white voting bloc to prevent the Latino population from electing candidates. No Latino candidate has been elected to the commission this century.
The coalition says a map that divides the city into five voting districts would give the Latino population the opportunity to hold at least two seats on the commission.
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Federal lawsuit says a Kansas city's election system keeps Latino candidates out of office
About 65% of Dodge City's residents are Latino. But a coalition of voting rights groups argues that an "at-large" election system allows the city's white voting bloc to prevent the Latino population from electing candidates. No Latino candidate has been elected to the commission this century.
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