A woman is checked in to receive her ballot during Missouri primary voting at the Griffith Elementary School on March 15, 2016 in Ferguson, Missouri. Not that her vote will do any good ...

As written about yesterday, a federal judge has halted elections for the school board in the Ferguson-Florissant, Missouri, school district because the process was found to be stacked against African Americans. Mother Jones reports that:

Voters in Ferguson had elected school board representatives every year in two or three at-large races, instead of voting for candidates representing specific subdistricts. The case, filed in December 2014 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and the Missouri chapter of the NAACP, alleged that this practice diluted black voter strength, leaving them "all but locked out of the political process."

More to the point, the ACLU charged that African Americans’ voting strength in the Ferguson area is “diluted:"