Klein dismisses concern that Columbus council elections violate Voting Rights Act

Columbus has dismissed concerns that its method of electing city council members in an at-large system could violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In a letter to the New York-based NAACP Legal Defense Fund, city council President Zach Klein wrote that the city attorney's office had reviewed those concerns and determined that the cases a fund attorney cited were "based on facts totally dissimilar to Columbus' strong record of electing minority candidates." The nonprofit law firm wrote a letter t