Lawsuit accuses Mississippi's election system of violating the Constitution

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https://wgno.com/2019/06/05/lawsuit-accuses-mississippi-election-system-of-diminishing-african-american-vote/

Mississippi has the highest share of African Americans of any state in the country, yet has not had a single African American win state-level, statewide office since Reconstruction.
A new lawsuit alleges that one of the reasons is a set of provisions in the Mississippi Constitution that “dilutes” the African American vote in favor of white districts and officeholders.

The lawsuit, filed last week by four African American Mississippi voters against Mississippi GOP Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and Mississippi GOP House Speaker Philip Gunn,
accused the state of violating the 14th and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution as well as a section of the Voting Rights Act. It called on the court to pull the provisions ahead of the
state’s next elections.

In Mississippi, the winners of state-level, statewide offices must win both an outright majority of the popular vote and a majority of state House districts. If no candidate wins both
indicators, the state House determines the election.The lawsuit argued that the process was set up to “entrench white control” of the state and makes it harder for African Americans to
win statewide races.

The provision requiring that a candidate win a majority of state House districts increases white control because “the vast majority of House districts have a majority-white population that
can easily outvote the smaller number of highly concentrated African-American majority districts,” the complaint said.

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Mississippi has the highest share of African Americans of any state in the country, yet has not had a single African American win state-level, statewide office since Reconstruction.

Yeah this is suspicious as all hell. It's like Ferguson Missouri where almost none of the police department or civil government were black, and guess what was happening?

Widespread persecution of black citizens at a fundamental level. Woopsies.

And that's entirely possible to be had at the state level as well.