JACKSONVILLE, Ark. — Most politics are local, but how local are they supposed to be?

In Jacksonville, it doesn’t matter if the representative for your neighborhood or ward lives there, as Jacksonville follows the at-large voting system. Meaning that wards are not currently represented by someone within the boundaries.

“Although we have five wards, those wards that have two representatives per ward are not voted in by those wards, but instead are voted in by the entire city,” explained Dr. Trenika McCoy, the Jacksonville City Council representative for Ward 2, position 2.

That’s the current state of city elections in Jacksonville, and what McCoy has been working to change.

“The way that it's currently set up, it's an unfair approach to selecting those representatives for each of those w

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