LAFAYETTE – The Vermilion Parish NAACP has sued the City of Abbeville for violating the Fourteenth Amendment's "One-Person, One-Vote" requirement by reusing 2010 electoral districts despite a 19% population deviation. The lawsuit seeks to declare the Enacted Map unconstitutional and to establish a new district plan for the Abbeville City Council.
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit earlier this week on behalf of the local NAACP; Mayor Roslyn R. White says the decision was based on data and was made in good faith.
A lawsuit was filed Tuesday, October 17, 2023, on behalf of the Vermilion Parish NAACP to block the Abbeville City Council-approved redistricting map that denies equal representation to voters.
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