Please write a paper on the California Voting Rights Act, which requires localities to change their election systems if there is racially polarized voting between racial/ethnic majority and minority voters. Has the California Voting Rights Act changed which candidates win election? In answering, please examine at least two cities or localities in California. At least one of these cities or other localities should have been subject to a threat of a lawsuit or lawsuit and then subsequently changed from at-large to district elections; and the other should not have been subject to a lawsuit threat (in order to provide a control case). Did the move from at-large to district elections cause a change in the racial and ethnic backgrounds of candidates who won office compared to your other case(s) that did not change their election system and kept it as an at-large system? Conclude by discussing whether this voting rights reform affected election outcomes. In answering, cite literature and data as relevant. This literature should include political science and/or public policy research from academic sources in addition to news and popular press sources. Please write no more than 6 pages, not including references. Please use at 11 point font, double spaced.
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