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478 U.S. at 36-37. In Gingles, the Court threw out all of the challenged multimember district Black candidates had sometimes managed to get elected. 6.Draw Districts the Minority Has a Fair Chance to Win If you have a minority population that could elect a representat and the minority population has been politically cohesive, but b the minoritys preferred candidates from being elected in the pa that the minority has a fair chance to win. To do that, they wi the district. How much of a majority is that? It has taken awhile to get there, but the U.S. Supreme Court has that § 2 does not require the creation of a district that a min unless the minority will constitute a majority of the voting age happened in the North Carolina case of Bartlett v. Strickland,No. 07-689, 129 S.Ct. 1231 (2009). In 1977, the Supreme Court had upheld a determination by the Jus percent non-White population majority was required to achieve a voters in certain legislative districts in New York City. United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey,430 U.S. 144, 164 (1977). In 1984, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in the ca Ketchum v. Byrne, 740 F.2d 1398, endorsed the use of a 65 percent Black population maj majority, in the absence of empirical evidence that some other f Ketchum involved the redistricting of city council wards in the city of census. The Court of Appeals found that minority groups general consequently, a larger proportion of individuals who are ineligi age population was a more appropriate measure of their voting st Further, because the voting age population of Blacks usually has voter turnout, the district court should have considered the use of total population or 60 percent of voting age population when Blacks could win. The Court of Appeals noted that: [J]udicial experience can provide a reliable guide to action whe ambiguous or not determinative and that a guideline of 65% of to its equivalent) has achieved general acceptance in redistricting . . . This figure is derived by augmenting a simple majority wit young population, 5% for low voter registration and 5% for low v Id. at 1415. 21