VOTE! v. City of Daytona Beach

This case challenges the Daytona Beach City Commission’s redistricting map, adopted in October 2025, as racially gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. In drawing the map, the City Commission set an arbitrary and unjustified racial target for two districts. To achieve their desired racial composition, commissioners connected disparate neighborhoods, divided established communities, and ignored citizen input. The use of race to draw these districts was not justified by the Voting Rights Act. We filed our complaint in October 2025.

The Latest: Our preliminary injunction motion to block the map ahead of the 2026 elections is pending before the court. In January 2026, the court stayed the case until the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Callais v. Louisiana, a case about the proper use of race in redistricting.