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  • Expert criticizes voting maps

    06/05/2002 2:59:15 PM PDT · by not-alone · 8 replies · 242+ views
    Palm Beach Post ^ | Wednesday, June 5, 2002 | S.V. Dáte
    MIAMI -- State House member Lois Frankel would be Congresswoman Lois Frankel if newly drawn district lines and election rules had been in place a decade ago, a voting patterns expert testified Tuesday in a trial over Florida's new district maps. That Frankel, who is white, would have prevailed in a district created to elect a black candidate is proof that the new lines drawn by Florida's Republican leadership illegally "retrogress" minority seats, testified Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University in Washington, D.C. Lichtman, the first of two expert witnesses for the Democratic critics of the plans, said...