When he ran for mayor of Gainesville four years ago, Charles Alvarez would often harshly criticize the city’s at-large voting process that he is convinced stacks the deck against minority candidates.
A Puerto Rican transplant from New York, Alvarez is a hardcore conservative Republican, but he has no problems lashing out against what he and others view as an unfair system.
Gainesville’s at-large voting dispute resurfaces
Votes cast across wards under fresh criticism from Latino candidates going into fall election
