Watch: House Committee Holds Hearing on Census Timeline

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Watch: House Committee Holds Hearing on Census Timeline

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On September 10, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on the status of the Census Bureau's operations in light of Covid-19 delays and other challenges. The…

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NY Federal Court Enjoins Presidential Order to Remove Illegal Immigrants from Apportionment Count

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A federal court panel is the first to decide on whether the president's memorandum directing the U.S. Census Bureau to report the estimated number of “aliens who are not in…

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Video: Gerrymandering and Reform Explained in 13 Minutes

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Need a quick primer on gerrymandering and reform? This just-released video produced by CNBC reviews the entire redistricting landscape regarding gerrymandering and reform efforts over the past two decades. All…

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Panel Discusses Election Administration, Redistricting and Campaign Finance

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On Thursday, January 31, a panel of professors and activists met to discuss the state of the American election system. Here is the description provided by the Hammer Forum of…

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Watch: A Mathematical Measurement of Partisan Gerrymandering

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. Researchers at Duke University do a good job explaining their quantitative analysis of North Carolina’s congressional redistricting maps in lay terms. In this video they present fairly solid statistical…

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Federal Court Rejects a Citizenship Question for the 2020 Census

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A New York federal district court has rejected the administration's bid to place a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 census. The U.S. Department of Commerce, which is the main…