Plaintiffs Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Association
et al. appeal from so much of an October 22, 2003 order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Norman A. Mordue,
Judge, as refused to order a special election to remedy violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“VRA”),
42 U.S.C. § 1973, with respect to the districting for elections to the Albany County Legislature (“Legislature”). For the reasons that follow, we reverse and remand, with instructions that a special primary election for the Legislature be held on March 2, 2004, in coordination with the national primary elections scheduled to be held on that date, and that a special general election for the Legislature be held expeditiously thereafter in accordance with a date or deadline to be set by the district court.