Word: unfairly
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Section Two of the 1982 Act was intended to establish criteria by which unfair elections could be identified. Democrats wanted a law that would allow minorities to contest elections based soley on the final vote tally. For example, if a district of 90 percent Black voters elected only white candidates, the outcome would be immediately suspect. Republicans sought a more difficult standard of proof, whereby complaintants, in order to contest an election, would have to show that minorities were somehow prevented from voting...
...compromise that finally cleared Congress stated that the results in an election can be one factor among a "totality of circumstances" that indicate an unfair election. Section Two creates a standard to discover laws that undermine the integrity of the vote...
...innercity beekeepers, football-playing philosophy concentrators and children of Vietnamese refugees, there should be room for respect for tradition--as long as those alumni children that Harvard admits are as qualified as other applicants. The staff position does not prove that legacies are less qualified; it only asserts that unfair preference is given...
McCown found that the new plan, putting an extra $528 million from sales taxes into school financing, was insufficient. Moreover, he said, the plan's way of allotting the funds was unfair and failed to achieve the structural overhaul that the state supreme court had ordered. McCown gave the state until September next year to get it right...
UCLA denied allegations of unfair admissions policies and plans to appeal the decision to an administrative law judge, according to a statement issued yesterday by UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young...