The Alabama attorney general’s office said Thursday that it opposes all three congressional maps proposed by a special master as federal judges begin drawing new districts
that Alabama — which is 27% Black — should have a second-majority Black district or something “close to it.”
The three proposals, submitted Sept. 25 by the court-appointed special master, would alter the boundaries of Congressional District 2 in south Alabama so that Black voters comprise between 48.5% to 50.1% of the voting age population. The plaintiffs urged the court to adopt either proposed Plan 1 or Plan 3, saying that those adequately remedy the Voting Rights Act violation. They said the special master’s analysis concluded that the Black-preferred candidate would have won election in 15 or 16 out of 17 contests.
Plaintiffs objected to Plan 2 and said it “fails to reliably provide Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.” They said an analysis shows that it would continue to elect candidates backed by white voters. “A district where the Black-preferred candidate wins only one of five times in the most recent congressional election cannot be considered an opportunity district,” plaintiffs wrote.“An argument that it is needed to guarantee a win by the candidate of choice of black voters is inconsistent with the language of Section 2, which merely requires an equally open process,” the state attorney general’s office wrote.
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