Hansi Luwang

NPR analyzed federal court records and found active legal fights over at least 17 voting maps or election systems for state legislatures, county commissions, school boards, or other local governments.

All of them are reckoning with the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority's decision to strike down a Louisiana congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

That ruling weakened longstanding Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and redistricting for places where voting is racially polarized.

Most of the active legal fights grappling with that decision were brought by Black voters in the South, but not all.

Native American voters are in a legal fight over North Dakota's legislative map, and Latino voters are challenging how members of a local Pennsylvania school board are elected.

Hansi Lawang, NPR News.