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Zimmer factors

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United States Supreme Court

a lack of minority access to the candidate selection process, unresponsiveness of elected officials to minority interests, a tenuous state policy underlying the preference for multimember or at-large districting, and the existence of past discrimination which precludes effective participation in the elector process.

Defined by the Supreme Court in Rogers v. Lodge, 458 U.S. 613 (1982).