Emphasizing that only one Latino candidate has ever been elected to serve on the Santa Monica City Council, plaintiffs in the voting rights lawsuit urged an appeals court to uphold a ruling that Santa Monica's election system should be replaced.
The responding brief filed by the plaintiffs on October 27 argues that the California Appeals Court should not reweigh the evidence that led to a Superior Court ruling that the City's at-large election system discriminates against Latinos.
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