Laguna Hills, one of the few remaining Orange County cities that still elects council members at-large, is expected to transition to a district-based voting system after legal threats regarding voting rights.

It’s been a trend over the past few years in Orange County as cities make the change to how they elect city council members in response to legal challenges that at-large voting violates the California Voting Rights Act and results in “racially polarized voting.”

At-large voting gives voters the opportunity to elect every open city council seat. For example, if there are three open city council seats during an election, every registered voter gets to cast their vote for all three open seats.

District voting creates election districts in cities and restricts voters to only elect the

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