In the recent cases, however, plaintiffs have been able to convince judges that some state laws were designed to discourage turnout by some groups or did not contain accommodations for those who lacked documentation, such as birth certificates, needed to get the photo IDs.
The city was split into 11 divisions, each a smaller replication of the king's court, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings – interconnected by innumerable doors and passageways, all richly decorated with the art that made Benin famous.
While these towers provided positions from which flanking fire could be deployed against a potential enemy, they also contained accommodation.
The west part of the building surrounding the cloister courtyard contained accommodation known as sets, for people who lived in college.
On the north side of the ward was a range of service buildings, including a kitchen, brewhouse and bakehouse, backed onto by the kitchen tower, containing accommodation and store rooms.
The building was in use as a lecture hall by 1923, and after modernisation between 1991 and 1994, funded by Sir Philip and Lady Harris, contains accommodation, a seminar room and the college's main lecture theatre.
The middle level contains accommodations for as many as 70 passengers in addition to the crew of 26.
The lower ward contained royal accommodation, while the upper consisted of service facilities and the accommodation for the garrison.
It also contained grand accommodation for the king.
For long periods of its history, only a small proportion of the ground contained seated accommodation.
