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Voting Rights Act Ruling Could Change Representation on City Councils, School Boards Across Texas

The ruling raises the proof standard for Section 2 claims and could make race-based challenges to Texas election maps harder to win.

Guillermo Ramos remembers seeing few elected leaders who looked like him while he was growing up in the 1980s in Farmers Branch, a fast-growing affluent suburb northwest of Dallas.

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The Texas Tribune broke the news in Austin, United States on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.
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