Is Major Redistricting Reform From Congress On the Way? A Look at H.R. 1

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Is Major Redistricting Reform From Congress On the Way? A Look at H.R. 1

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Congress has made redistricting reform in 2021 a top priority. To that end H.R.1 (S.1) was introduced in the current congress and is poised to establish major election reforms should…

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The Census Bureau Sets a Target Date for Long-awaited Redistricting Data Delivery to the States

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The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the target date for delivering redistricting data to the states; the final component needed to redraw congressional and legislative lines. The relevant excerpts from…

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What’s New About Redistricting in 2020? – It’s Going To Start Late

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Really late. The pre-Covid decades were very much predictable in terms of census data releases. The apportionment data, pursuant to statute, would be delivered to the President and Congress by…

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Special Citizens Voting-Age Population Tabulation Canceled by Census Bureau

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While the big news from the Census Bureau regarding the delayed apportionment and redistricting data has dominated the headlines as of late, the bureau also announced that it would be…

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Census Bureau Announces Revised Data Release Schedule But Stops Short on Firm Date for Redistricting Data

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The target date for apportionment data is April 30 2021. Bureau officials say a date for the release of redistricting data for the states is forthcoming, but they are certain…

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Apportionment Numbers Delayed Until March

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"Uncertainty over the timing of congressional apportionment increased Monday, as government lawyers told a federal judge the Census Bureau's new internal target date for finalizing state population counts is March…

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U.S. Supreme Court Decides Not to Decide Illegal Immigrant Apportionment Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the White House request to the Census Bureau to modify the population count to exclude undocumented immigrants was not ripe. The per…

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Listen: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Trump Apportionment / Citizenship Case

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On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Trump v. New York. This case challenged an executive memo directing the Census Bureau to report official congressional apportionment data…

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(Privacy) Invariants Set for 2020 Census Data Products

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The U.S. Census Bureau has determined the specific files within the redistricting data release that will not be altered for privacy purposes. Or in other words, which files will have…

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Census Bureau Director Says “Processing Anomalies” will Delay Census Data Release Schedule

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On November 19th the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau released a short statement acknowledging "certain processing anomalies" in the decennial census data collected earlier this year. While the director…