Voting has been placed on temporary hold throughout one upstate county.
Senior U.S. Judge Lawrence Kahn ruled Tuesday Albany County diluted minority voting power in its 2011 redistricting plan. The Times Union reports Kahn has blocked county officials from proceeding with this year's legislative elections until a new plan is drafted.
A 2011 lawsuit alleged that year's redistricting plan violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by failing to create a fifth County Legislature district in which minority voters are a majority.
The paper says Kahn ordered the county to submit a new plan to the court within three weeks. The current election calendar begins with ballot petitioning in June.
