GREENSBORO,  (AP) - The NAACP has filed a lawsuit over a North Carolina law that will leave thousands of Guilford County residents without representation on the local board of commissioners until 2014.

The civil rights group filed the complaint in federal court Thursday, saying the state law passed last year violates the constitutional principal of one person, one vote.

The General Assembly approved a law last year that changes the way Guilford County commissioners are elected. The number of commissioners is being reduced from 11 to nine, and a new district has been created.
 
But that district won't be allowed to elect a commissioner until 2014. The lawsuit says at least one other district will have two commissioners instead of one.