Attorney Notes on Transcripts
Working File
January 1, 1985

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Case Files, Thornburg v. Gingles Working Files - Guinier. Attorney Notes on Transcripts, 1985. f8c7b9a5-df92-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/11a51296-1fda-4af0-87ec-783783058b60/attorney-notes-on-transcripts. Accessed April 06, 2025.
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21 In 1978 and 1980 general elections the black candidate got, resPectively, 34t and 24* of the votes cast by black voter4s and Iost. Px 11, appendix 3, Pp. 7-9. This presents black voters with a substantial dilemma either they can vote for a fuI1 slate and forfeit the chance of electing the black candidates of their choice, or they can single shot vote and lose any ability they might have had to influence the white members of the delegation. For example, WAke County white candidates who got votes from between 7t to 12\ of black voters won in the primary election in 1980, the first time a black candidate ever won. Pl. Ex. 1 7 (b) .8 Similarly in the Forsyth County In Wake County, which Democratic, winning tantamount to election. primary, not the general important to examine. is overwhelmingly the primary is Thus, it is the election which ic