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Voting Rights Suit Vs. City Underway, Challengers Drop out of Council Race

Voting Rights Suit Vs. City Underway, Challengers Drop out of Council Race

08/10/2018 9:30 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

A coalition of voting rights advocates have taken the City of Santa Monica to court, claiming the City’s at-large election system dilutes the Latino vote in City Council elections and is in violation of the California Voting Rights Act.

The outcome of this ongoing voting rights lawsuit,” Pico Neighborhood Association et al. v. City of Santa Monica,” not only will have a lasting impact on the future of elections in the City but has already laid its mark on the upcoming 2018 elections by causing two City Council two candidates to end their bid for office.

Kate Bransfield and Armen Melkonians, co-founders of the Facebook page “Residocracy,” announced last weekend that they were dropping out of the race for City Council.