New map with majority-minority 5th District will be used for upcoming elections
Tuesday afternoon, district voting became the law of the land in Fayette County by decree of a U.S. District Judge, replacing the county’s at-large voting format with a new process that will allow residents to vote for just one of the five members on both the Fayette County Commission and the Fayette County Board of Education.
Under at-large voting, struck down by the court, Fayette voters had the luxury of casting a ballot for all five members on each governing body.
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