BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Whitfield and other appellants, black voters in Phillips County, Arkansas, challenge the district court's dismissal of their complaint. Whitfield sued the Democratic Party of Arkansas and others, alleging that a state statute which requires a general (runoff) primary election if one candidate does not receive a majority of the vote is both unconstitutional and in violation of section 2 et seq. of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. §...
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