Policy · 117th Congress
Census data delay adds to voting advocates’ equitable map woes
Voting rights watchdogs fear the tight schedule caused by late census data could allow political mapmakers to stray into racial gerrymandering
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Voting rights watchdogs fear the tight schedule caused by late census data could allow political mapmakers to stray into racial gerrymandering
An altered schedule has led the Census Bureau to ask Congress for an extension that could result in delivering the data needed to draw state legislative maps as late as next July, about a month after
But several pollsters have been able to keep their schedule.