Tag: Voting Rights Act

Reliability of Homogeneous Precinct Analysis Undermined since Small Majorities provide Insufficient Data for such Analysis; Court limits the Testimony of Political Science Expert Witness amidst claims of Racially Polarized Voting

Dec 13, 2023

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Expert Witness Profiler

in Expert Challenges, Political Science Expert Witness, Sociology Expert Witness

This case concerned claims brought by Plaintiffs Miguel Coca and Alejandro Rangel-Lopez under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”) and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants, the City of Dodge City and members of the Dodge City Commission, violated Section 2 by holding at-large elections for Commission seats. To…