Sentence examples for vote strength from inspiring English sources

Much as Democrats overreached in pushing their original legislation, however, I suspect they are over-reading the likely impact of the summit and their ultimate vote strength for the split-the-Democratic difference plan the president unveiled on Monday.

Some city Democrats are raising the prospect that any map that eliminates a New York City seat potentially violates the one-man, one-vote requirements of the Constitution and may fail to meet a requirement of the Voting Rights Act: maximizing minority voting strength.

The Democrats, in addition to challenging the gerrymander on the ground that it is excessively partisan, have asserted that the new lines of a congressional district in the Dallas Fort Worth area dilute African-American voting strength, in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

The judges rejected Republican Party claims that by shifting some black and Hispanic voters out of three predominantly minority districts in and around Newark and spreading them to other, mostly white districts, the plan diluted minority voting strength in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

At the same time, the commission must satisfy goals dictated by the City Charter and the federal Voting Rights Act, including preserving or bolstering minority voting strength, keeping neighborhoods intact and encouraging political diversity.

Further, the commission is charged with complying with the City Charter and the federal Voting Rights Act, by preserving or increasing minority voting strength, keeping district lines contiguous whenever possible and encouraging political and racial diversity.

As a result, the Justice Department said in a suit filed there on Wednesday, black voters have been unable to elect black representatives, a dilution of voting strength that the department says violates the Voting Rights Act.

More than any of his 434 colleagues in the House, Mr. Watt has been caught between the Voting Rights Act's prohibition against the dilution of minority voting strength and the Supreme Court's 1995 edict that race cannot be used as a predominant factor in designing legislative districts.

Indeed, states were required to take race into account when that was necessary to comply with the Voting Rights Act's prohibition against redistricting plans that dilute minority voting strength.

It doesn't take a genius to point out that it's inherently problematic for the government to count people by race ("It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race," as Chief Justice Roberts famously expressed the thought during his first term on the court, dissenting from a 2006 Voting Rights Act decision that found that Texas had improperly diluted Latino voting strength).

But its voting strength has eroded.