There will be NO redistricting census data until September….

While the Trump people and Republicans wanted a rush and immigrants separated out of the count with a fast finish before Trump departure?

THAT is way gone…

The Bureau has announced that everything will come out in ONE release and that will be when EVERYTHING is due after the summer…

Reason’s?

Covid ….

Politics …

With the virus induced personnel days lost and the rushed political policy decisions by the Trump admin …

The bureau will move ahead…

The original deadline was the beginning of the year, that was pushed back till the end of March and now it’s the end of the summer….

The results are used by officials in each state to draw up US House districts every ten years as the constitution requires…

The redistricting data includes counts of population by race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing occupancy status at geographic levels as small as neighborhoods, and they are used for drawing voting districts for Congress and state legislatures. Unlike in past decades when the data were released to states on a flow basis, the 2020 redistricting data will be made available to the states all at once, according to the Census Bureau.

The delayed release creates a chain reaction in the political world. Several states will not get the data until after their legal deadlines for drawing new districts, requiring them to either rewrite laws or ask courts to allow them a free pass due to the delay. Candidates may not know yet whether they will live in the district they want to run in by the filing deadline. In some cases, if fights over new maps drag into the New Year, primaries may have to be delayed.

In the end, though, experts said the elections will proceed as normal in November 2022. The biggest impact will be to compress the window during which lawyers can challenge bad maps in court.

“It makes it significantly more likely that courts will bump up against election deadlines,” said Michael Li of the Brennan Center for Justice.

Census Bureau officials are aware of the deadlines facing lawmakers and redistricting commissions nationwide, but “we have a strong schedule that reflects the time we need,” said James Whitehorne, chief of the Redistricting and Voting Rights Data office at the bureau.

“We are consistently aware of the urgency and needs of the states for this data,” Whitehorne said.

Gail Gitcho, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Redistricting Trust, said the group’s attorneys were reviewing the implications of the delay.

Eric Holder, a U.S. attorney general in the Obama administration, warned that the new deadline shouldn’t be “a pretext to hold 2022 elections on old maps” in an effort at political gain, or to draw maps without significant public input…

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