Latinos Reshaped Sleepy Hollow. Now They May Reshape the Town Board.
The Village of Sleepy Hollow, once a quiet manufacturing town 30 miles north of New York City, has been transformed as waves of immigrants from Central and South America have relocated there.
The influx could be seen in the Mexican taquerias and Ecuadorean delis that filled downtown, but was not evident in the makeup of the presiding local town board. That disconnect spurred a lawsuit asserting that the voting system in the Town of Mount Pleasant — which encompasses Sleepy Hollow — made it impossible for Latino residents to elect a candidate to represent them.
That case was resolved on Tuesday, when Mount Pleasant agreed to institute a new system and cover the roughly $1.5 million in legal fees for the plaintiffs.
The case was among the first filed under the state’s 2022 John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which offers some of the most muscular protections in the nation for communities of color.
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