Santa Ana hit with lawsuit seeking by-district voting

A voting rights group this week filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Santa Ana resident alleging that the city’s elections violate state law.
The Los Angeles chapter of Asian Americans Advancing Justice had threatened a suit in a March letter, which the city received as the council was debating a June ballot measure to switch council elections from at-large to by-district.
The city is divided into six wards and council members must live in the ward they represent, but all voters in the city choo