Here's a story in today's Argus Leader which discusses a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against Charles Mix County, which attempted to force the county to re-draw its county commission districts. In order to re-draw the lines, which apparently is only done every ten years, the county successfully sought a state law this winter which would allow them re-draw the lines at a different time. The ACLU brought suit against that move too. Anyway, note this sentence from the story:
The Charles Mix case is the seventh voting rights lawsuit the ACLU has filed in South Dakota since 1999.
That is quite interesting. It would be good if somebody would synthesize all the information from those suits and explain what it all means.
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