...proportion to its voting potential. The plaintiffs' burden is to produce evidence to support findings that the political processes leading to nomination...residents in the district to participate in the political processes and to elect legislators of their choice. WhUcomb v. Chavis, supra, at 149-150. With due...

...proportion to its voting potential. The plaintiffs' burden is to produce evidence to support findings that the political processes leading to nomination...residents in the district to participate in the political processes and to elect legislators of their choice. White v. Regester, supra at 765-66. With these...

...proportion to its voting potential. The plaintiffs burden is to produce evidence to support findings that, the political processes leading to nomination and election were not equally open — And I underscore this language for my own purposes of emphasis — Equally open to participation...

...proportion to its voting potential. The plaintiff's burden is to produce evidence to support findings that the political processes leading to nomination...not equally open to participation by the group in quest ion-- that its members had less opportunity than did other residents in the district to participate...

...purpose nor effect. Id., at 88-90, and nn. 15 and MOBILE v. BOLDEN 09 56 Opinion of STEWART, J. ing to nomination and election were not equally open to participation by the group [s] in question." 412 US, at 766, 767. In so holding, the Court relied upon evidence in the record...

...employing the same criterion, namely, that the plaintiffs must produce evidence to support a finding "that the political processes leading to nomination...residents in the district to participate in the political processes and to elect legislators of their choice." 412 US, at 766. This participatory approach to...

..."totality of the Sg§ circumstances" concerning whether minorities "had less opportunity than did o | | other residents in the district to participate in the political process and to elect the legislators of their choice," thus violating the equal protection clause of the H ;§ o> Constitution....

...well as the existence of multimember systems, was said to reveal that blacks and Mexican Americans "had less opportunity than did other residents in the district to participate in the political processes and to elect legislators of their choice."88 The most distressing fact, from the point of...

...Amendment if minority voter plaintiffs could prove on the basis of a number of evidentiary factors that "the political processes leading to nomination...residents in the district to participate in the political processes and to elect legislators of their choice. "This decision was first implemented by the US...

...in mind, we have limited such claims by insisting upon a showing that "the political processes . . . were not equally open to participation by the group...residents in the district to participate in the political processes and to elect legislators of their choice." . . . Indeed, as a brief survey of decisions illustrates,...