Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has been interpreted to require the drawing of legislative districts that give racial or language-minority groups an opportunity to elect representatives of their choice.

Use of Section 2 remedies has produced majority-Black and majority-Latino congressional districts that frequently elect Democratic candidates in some states.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (enacted in 1965) allows legal challenges to voting practices and requires challengers to demonstrate current racially polarized voting and that minority populations are unable to elect candidates of their choice, among other factors, to establish a violation.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act provides a mechanism for addressing current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantaged racial or ethnic minorities in access to the voting system.

Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act provides a legal basis to challenge voting practices and electoral maps that dilute minority voting strength and is used to ensure minority voters have the opportunity to elect their preferred candidates.

Courts can order remedial electoral maps that create additional majority-minority districts when the courts find violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to remedy vote dilution.