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Legislature: enshrine equal political access for all

September 17, 2014 Washington State Senior Citizens' Lobby

Here in the progressive Northwest, we like to think that voting rights issues are a problem for the southern “red” states. But a recent federal court busted that myth in a ruling that the City of Yakima’s at-large system disenfranchises Latino voters and, therefore, runs afoul of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act.

 http://www.theolympian.com/2014/09/17/3320069_legislature-enshrine-equal-politcal.htmlsp=/99/109/207/&rh=1#storylink=cpy
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