This article is an overview of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the legal test to determine how a plaintiff can prove a minority vote dilution claim under the act against a redistricting map. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was enacted in direct response to the unapologetic disenfranchisement of minority voters, particularly in the South. Government-supported attempts to keep minorities from the polls were pursued both out in the open as well as surreptitiously. These practices included poll taxes, literacy tests, restrictive and arbitrary registration practices, white primaries, the threat of violence, actual violence, and ballot…