
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 27, 1991                   TAG: 9103270518
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

NORFOLK COUNCIL OKS MODIFIED WARD PLAN

The City Council has unanimously approved a two-tiered ward system for city elections after modifying a portion of the package.

The plan must be submitted to the U.S. Justice Department for approval to settle an 8-year-old voting-rights case. It would scrap the city's at-large voting system, which has been in place for 73 years.

The plan approved Tuesday night would divide the city into five wards and two "superwards." Each voter would be represented in one regular ward and one superward.

Two of the regular wards and one of the superwards would have black majorities. The modification adopted by the council changed the black-majority superward to increase the proportion of blacks from 62 percent to 64 percent.

- Associated Press

Keywords:
POLITICS

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