Plaintiffs in the case include Yakima Valley community members, like Susan Soto Palmer and Caty Padilla, the executive director of Sunnyside-based nonprofit Nuestra Casa, who praised the new maps.

To Yakima Valley residents, it may seem like redistricting efforts are all around. New political boundaries are being considered at the city, county and state level. Each adjustment may change how ...

Yakima, Pasco and communities in between are home to a large population of Latino voters, and the bipartisan commission that drew Washington’s current legislative district maps in 2021 could ...

There is a long history of voting rights discrimination against Latinos in the Yakima Valley region. If these maps are kept in place for the next 10 years, then Latino voters will have to face ...

A federal judge invalidated Washington’s 15th Legislative District map in early August 2023. That map had been put together by the Washington State Redistricting Commission in November of 2021 ...

Yakima Valley is a 70-mile-long valley that cultivates over 17,000 acres of vineyards. It’s the state’s first federally recognized American Viticultural Area ... Site Map; Follow us on ...

In mid-August, U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik found that the current district violates the federal Voting Rights Act and ordered the state to redraw the map to comply with the 1965 law.

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The people who brought the lawsuit had argued the state split or “cracked” the Yakima Valley’s substantial Latino population, diluting their voting power. Another lawsuit, Garcia v.

Yakima Valley is a 70-mile-long valley that cultivates over 17,000 acres of vineyards. It’s the state’s first federally recognized American Viticultural Area (AVAs).