Judge orders Huntington Beach to add more democracy to its democracy
A judge has ordered Huntington Beach to adopt ranked-choice voting after finding that the city’s at-large elections diluted Latino voting power, which means Surf City’s latest culture-war adventure may end with voters being allowed to rank candidates instead of just picking one.
The case was brought to court more than two years ago by the nonprofit group Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and Victor Valladares, a Huntington Beach resident and local Democratic activist.
They argued that the city’s predominantly Latino neighborhood of Oak View had suffered decades of neglect, in part because residents there lacked the voting power to get representation in city government.
Surf City wanted a culture war. The judge assigned math homework.
I'm not very familiar with left coast politics. Have there been Latino candidates in Huntington Beach?
When did the Judiciary get the power to determine how people vote; I thought that was a Legislative branch function?