ACLU sues Ferguson school district because black voters aren’t electing black candidates

ACLU sues Ferguson school district because black voters aren’t electing black candidates | BizPac Review:
"Voting rights lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit last year challenging the Ferguson-Florissant school district’s use of an “at-large” voting system, alleging that not enough blacks were being voted into office.
On Wednesday, the school district filed new documents urging the judge to drop the lawsuit, arguing that the district was not engaged in any sort of scheme to keep minorities from holding office.
Although African Americans make up roughly 77 percent of the students in the district, only one of the seven members of the school board was black when the case was filed last year.
Since then, one additional black member has been elected.
The ACLU claims the at-large voting system – where all candidates are elected by the entire district rather than small geographical areas – is to blame for the low number of minority members, according to MSNBC."