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“The U.S. Justice Department may review the 2001 redistricting plan for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors amid claims that it discriminates against Latinos, officials said Tuesday.
Latinos make up 47 percent of the county’s population but are represented by only one of the five supervisors.
Joaquin G. Avila, special counsel to the 1,070-member Los Angeles County Chicano Employees Association, recently provided the Justice Department with what he says is new evidence that supervisors deliberately packed Latino voters into a single district when two districts could have been drawn.”
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