New Virginia Beach voting district map approved after city’s election system declared illegal

Mentioned: Jackson’s ruling was the result of a 2017 lawsuit filed by Virginia Beach resident Latasha Holloway, an African-American single mother of four who argued the city’s voting system was discriminatory. The Washington-based Campaign Legal Center later joined the case and argued on Holloway’s behalf during an October 2020 trial in federal court in Norfolk.

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