Taxpayer pricetag for California mini-Voting Rights Act: $8,000,000
The Santa Clara Weekly has calculated the costs to the taxpayers of California's version of the Voting Rights Act. $8,000,000. Now the costs can be weighed against the benefits. Remember, Section 2 of the (federal) Voting Rights Act applies also in California. California's law is more plaintiff friendly than the federal law. A portion of the article:
"For example, the LCCR sued the Tulare Local Healthcare District even though its five-member governing board includes two Indian-Americans, one Latino, and an African-American. The claim? That Latinos - one third of the district's residents - were "shortchanged."
The LCCR also threatened Gustine Unified School District in Merced County with a CVRA lawsuit, even though the district has a large Portuguese-American population and three of the district's five trustees - a majority - are Portuguese, according to a Feb. 24, 2010 Modesto Bee report."
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