The Rocketeer
Unclear and Present Danger
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Mississippi Supreme Court - Is Mississippi a Black Voter State?
Five of the Supreme will we see in a Supreme Court seats are chosen like a congressional seat and so that set of voters just like in that district chooses that judge for justice but for two of the seats they're in a single multi-member district consisting of four parishes. It's impossible for the black registered voters in this district to elect a judge of their choice because they will always be out voted by the other three parishes which have majority white electorates. The creation of using at large districts was common in the Jim Crow south along with other things Georgia you probably know has runoff elections if no candidate reaches 50 percent those are runoffs.
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