The State reports on Lexington 3 suit: In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Margaret Seymour found that the district’s practice of at-large voting did not discriminate against African-American voters in the 2,020-student school district. . . “Out of the last four elections — 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 — 14 seats on the school board were open, and minority voters elected nine candidates of choice, for a 64 percent success rate,” Seymour wrote in a 24-page opinion. In the past 25 years, the American Civil Liberties Union has forced about 20 local elective bodies in South Carolina to change their voting from at-large to include at least some single-member districts. A final defeat in Lexington 3 will be a rare setback.