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http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_b.php

Introduction To Federal Voting Rights Laws
The Voting Rights Act, adopted initially in 1965 and extended in 1970, 1975, and 1982, is generally considered the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever adopted by the United States Congress. The Act codifies and effectuates the 15th Amendment’s permanent guarantee that, throughout the nation, no person shall be denied the right to vote on account of race or color. In addition, the Act contains several special provisions that impose even more stringent requirements in certain jurisdictions throughout the country.

Adopted at a time when African Americans were substantially disfranchised in many Southern states, the Act employed measures to restore the right to vote that intruded in matters previously reserved to the individual states. Section 4 ended the use of literacy requirements for voting in six Southern states (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia) and in many counties of North Carolina, where voter registration or turnout in the 1964 presidential election was less than 50 percent of the voting-age population. Under the terms of Section 5 of the Act, no voting changes were legally enforceable in these jurisdictions until approved either by a three-judge court in the District of Columbia or by the Attorney General of the United States. Other sections authorized the Attorney General to appoint federal voting examiners who could be sent into covered jurisdictions to ensure that legally qualified persons were free to register for federal, state, and local elections, or to assign federal observers to oversee the conduct of elections.

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Yeah, we have to ask “Mommy may I?”

In our little Gulfside county in north Fl, we used to have five at large commissioners. With only 15,000 population and maybe 10,000 voters, it made sense.

Thirty years ago, the NAACP sued the county and the DOJ forced us to go to single member districts so that there would be a black commissioner. He has been commissioner ever since

Each commissioner represents at most 2,000 voters and looks out only for their own, narrow interests.

Despite gorgeous beaches, a deep water port, we still have 15,000 population due to awful government wrought upon us by the so-called civil rights act, the NAACP and DOJ.