For one thing, this was not the first lawsuit of its kind in the region. Two other similar lawsuits had been settled in recent years with the city of Yakima and Yakima County. Each suit represented one part of the fight for equitable access to political power for the Latino electorate in the Yakima Valley. (As of 2020, roughly half of the residents of both Yakima and Yakima County identify as Hispanic or Latino.) Voting rights, in other words, were top of mind for Mai, and she knew there was more to the story. After filing an initial story on the lawsuit over the 15th, she turned her focus
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