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NAACP chapter sues Worcester over school board election system that allegedly discriminates
WORCESTER A coalition including the Worcester branch of the NAACP and Worcester Interfaith filed a federal lawsuit on Monday alleging that the at-large system for electing members of the School Committee discriminates against communities of color.
“The courts have ruled that at-large systems such as Worcester’s are unfair and illegal,” Oren M. Sellstrom of Lawyers for Civil Rights, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the voting rights lawsuit, said in a press release. “Worcester’s winner-take-all system deprives communities of color of the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.”