---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 51.57"
title: "28"
number: "51.57"
heading: "Relevant factors."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/51.57"
---

# §51.57. Relevant factors.


Among the factors the Attorney General will consider in making determinations with respect to the submitted changes affecting voting are the following:

- (a) The extent to which a reasonable and legitimate justification for the change exists;
- (b) The extent to which the jurisdiction followed objective guidelines and fair and conventional procedures in adopting the change;
- (c) The extent to which the jurisdiction afforded members of racial and language minority groups an opportunity to participate in the decision to make the change;
- (d) The extent to which the jurisdiction took the concerns of members of racial and language minority groups into account in making the change; and
- (e) **The factors set forth in <I>Village of Arlington Heights</I> v.** Metropolitan Housing Development Corp., 429 U.S. 252 (1977):
  - (1) Whether the impact of the official action bears more heavily on one race than another;
  - (2) The historical background of the decision;
  - (3) The specific sequence of events leading up to the decision;
  - (4) Whether there are departures from the normal procedural sequence;
  - (5) Whether there are substantive departures from the normal factors considered; and
  - (6) The legislative or administrative history, including contemporaneous statements made by the decision makers.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Order No. 3262-2011, 76 FR 21249, Apr. 15, 2011]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, and 42 U.S.C. 1973b, 1973c.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 490, Jan. 6, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Order No. 3262-2011, 76 FR 21249, Apr. 15, 2011]