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talked about the provisions that are still enforced in the voting rights act, provisions against racial vote dilussio. in is there a remedy in the courts? is there still potential help down the road from the courts? atlas remedy, rachel, but it s a harder remedy, because previously galveston would have had to approve this kind of racially discriminatory change with the federal government and it would have been blocked. it s why they never proposed doing this kind of thing in the first place. now they can do it and you can only challenge it after the fact, so there s going to be litigation filed, not just in galveston, but in places in texas and georgia where they re enacting discriminate tory statewide maps. it s going to take a long time to litigate these cases. in the meantime, elections will be held under discriminatory and likely illegal maps.