In November Mission Viejo voters will decide the fates of all five members of the City Council. That stems from legal wrangling that forced the city to switch from five “at-large” seats in which candidates run citywide, to a system made up of five separate districts.
A 2018 lawsuit by the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project contended the at-large system disenfranchised Latino voters and violated the California Voting Rights Act.
Councilors Ed Sachs, Greg Raths, and Mayor Wendy Bucknam already were slated for re-election races because their four-year terms were up. Those seats originally were two years, then extended to four years to accommodate the new system….
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