Citing Imbalance, Judge Stops School Board Election in Pa.
As voters across the country went to the polls last week, residents of the Connellsville Area School District in southwest Pennsylvania who planned to vote in the local school board election had to stay home.
U.S. District Judge Donald J. Lee of
Pittsburgh late last month canceled the election for five board seats.
Judge Lee stopped the election as part of a ruling in a 1998 lawsuit
claiming that the populations of the three regions from which the
board's nine members were elected were unbalanced and violated the
one-person, one-vote federal standard for elections.
The number of voters in each of the three board regions ranges from 16,137, to 1,969, to 8,610. The seven plaintiffs in the case asked the judge to cancel last week's election if the district failed to reapportion the voting...
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