“A federal court had already determined that under the Voting Rights Act there were only eight protected majority-minority congressional districts in Texas. Mr. Rich and his colleagues tried to claim that there were 11. But the claims were specious and were only put forth to help the Democratic Party.”
--Hans A. Von Spakovsky in Anatomy of a Beltway Smear Campaign
Mr. Spakovsky was a recess appointee to the Federal Election Commission & a
career counsel to the Asst. Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice