percent hispanic 42 percent caucasian and 8 or 9 percent african american. until this year no hispanic has been elected to the board of trust des and only two hispanics have ever been on the ballot. the town s mayor offers a reason for this discrepancy. most are not united states citizens yet. the census estimates 22 percent of the grogroup they sri late section 2 of the voting rights act. a hispanic failed to win a seat on the board in 2001. as a result of the complaint he filed with the department of justice the department of justice came in and filed a suit. the department receives hundreds of thousands of complaints every year concerning various.