The Los Angeles Daily News offers this report, which begins: “MOORPARK – The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing decades of voting records in what city officials speculate could be an inquiry to determine whether Moorpark’s election system favors whites over Latinos.” In potentially related news, the San Francisco Chronicle offers Minority voting rights law declared unconstitutional. It begins: “A 2002 state law that lets minority voters challenge at-large elections for city council, school board and other local offices has been ruled unconstitutional by a Modesto judge, who said it discriminates by race and ethnicity.” Morgan Kousser had sent me the tentative ruling in this case. If someone sends me the final ruling, I’ll post it.