City of Abbeville has no plans to redraw their district map despite claims from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Vermilion Parish NAACP chapter that it denies equal representation to voters ...

The Abbeville City Council will decide whether or not to approve a new voting district map at a future council meeting.

The Vermilion Parish NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center presented their map to the Abbeville City Council, which would provide equal voting power to all residents, in an ongoing fight to ...

The Vermilion Parish NAACP drew up its own suggested map that divides the city into four districts with a deviation of less that 1%, and submitted it to the council on Sept. 23 when, the suit ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit earlier this week on behalf of the local NAACP; Mayor Roslyn R. White says the decision was based on data and was made in good faith.