Woods v. Harden

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “when black voters have equal access to the polls and in fact represent a majority of those eligible to vote in a majority of the election districts relevant to the governmental body at issue, the rights afforded by ... the Voting Rights Act are satisfied” (emphasis added)
• abjuring classification of protected groups by the way they vote rather than by their race; to do otherwise would impermissibly \resolv[e] discrimination issues on the basis of whether members of the protected group are elected\

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