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NEW: Commerce @SecretaryRoss has directed @uscensusbureau "to produce Citizenship Voting Age Population (CVAP) information prior to April 1, 2021 that states may use in redistricting," according to document uploaded July 3 to RegInfo.gov👇
documentcloud.org/documents/6192…
2. Using citizenship information for redistricting was highlighted in both President Trump's July 11 executive order and GOP strategist Thomas Hofeller's unpublished study that concluded it would be "advantageous to Republicans & Non-Hispanic Whites"👇
3. The doc also says @CommerceGov determined there's "not sufficient time to develop an alternative record to support" #CitizenshipQuestion. RegInfo.gov says it was uploaded July 3, more than week before President Trump said he's abandoning Q👇
reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAV…
4. It's unclear if the upload date for the document was backdated to July 3. I've emailed @uscensusbureau, @CommerceGov and Regulatory Information Service Center for comment.
5. This new document ("Supporting Statement A") was submitted to the White House's Office of Management & Budget as part of the approval process for the #2020Census forms (stand by for more census 🤓news in next tweet)👇
reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAV…
6. NEW: #2020Census forms that do not include a #CitizenshipQuestion were formally approved July 12 by White House's Office of Management & Budget. This allows paper forms that are being printed now to be used next year to collect info form households👇
reginfo.gov/public/do/Down…
7. The 1st version of this supporting statement for #2020Census from February included multiple references to Voting Rights Act to justify collecting citizenship info👇New statement does not mention VRA but says citizenship info is for state redistricting.
8. It's odd that the same document that says @SecretaryRoss has directed @uscensusbureau to release citizenship info for state redistricting later makes that release sound conditional to redistricting officials indicating a need & if citizenship data is "collected"👇
9. It's similar language that was included in earlier version of this supporting statement and this @FedRegister notice from February, back when it was still unclear whether the #2020Census would include a #CitizenshipQuestion👇
10. Interesting that @uscensusbureau only recently submitted to OMB their focus group study showing negative impact of #CitizenshipQuestion. The study was released in January, before bureau made its 1st OMB submission for #2020Census in February👇
11. Btw if you're wondering which #2020Census questions you can leave blank while still having your household counted using incomplete form, @uscensusbureau says that "cannot be revealed to the public or even other Census Bureau employees" without "an operational need to know"👇
@uscensusbureau 12. If you're wondering if it's legal to draw voting districts based on number of eligible voters rather than number of all residents, the Supreme Court left that an open question back in 2016.

From Justice #RBG's majority opinion in Evenwel v. Abbott👇

supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/…
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Hansi Lo Wang
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NEW: @uscensusbureau is dividing up the U.S. population into 6 different mindsets to guide #2020Census outreach:

- Eager Engagers
- Fence Sitters
- Confidentiality Minded
- Head Nodders
- Wary Skeptics
- Disconnected Doubters

From final research paper👇
www2.census.gov/programs-surve…
@uscensusbureau 2. @uscensusbureau is dividing up the U.S. into 8 segments based on likelihood to respond to #2020Census:

-Responsive Suburbia
-Main Street Middle
-Country Roads
-Downtown Dynamic
-Student & Military Communities
-Sparse Spaces
-Multicultural Mosaic
-Rural Delta & Urban Enclaves
@uscensusbureau 3. "Responsive Suburbia is predicted to self-respond at the highest rates overall and by internet. This segment is composed of census tracts that primarily consist of suburban neighborhoods of single-family homes."👇
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Hansi Lo Wang
@hansilowang
NEW: 14 Senate Democrats led by Sen. @brianschatz have introduced a bill that would "nullify the effect" of President Trump's executive order directing all federal agencies to share citizenship information requested by the @CommerceGov Dept👇

congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
@brianschatz @CommerceGov 2. @SenBrianSchatz and 16 other Senate Democrats also sent a letter to Commerce @SecretaryRoss & AG William Barr calling President Trump's EO on citizenship records "a blatant effort to collect this information for political & discriminatory purposes"👇

schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
@brianschatz @CommerceGov @SenBrianSchatz @SecretaryRoss 3. Sen. @CoryBooker, a co-sponsor of the new bill, has also recently introduced a Senate bill that would ban @uscensusbureau from including citizenship information among data provided to redistricting officials after #2020Census👇

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Hansi Lo Wang
@hansilowang
CENSUS 🤓 ALERT: There’s *another* hearing on Capitol Hill worth watching today. @uscensusbureau Director Steven Dillingham & @USGAO are set to testify at 1 p.m. ET before House @OversightDems @GOPoversight subcommittee. Stand by for live tweets👇

oversight.house.gov/legislation/he…
@uscensusbureau @USGAO @OversightDems @GOPoversight 2. Live stream of 1 p.m. ET House @OversightDems subcommittee hearing led by @RepRaskin on #2020Census preparations👇

@uscensusbureau @USGAO @OversightDems @GOPoversight @RepRaskin 3. Here is @uscensusbureau Director Steven Dillingham's prepared statement for today's House @OversightDems @GOPoversight subcommittee hearing on the #2020Census👇

documentcloud.org/documents/6212…
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
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Re-upping this to explain what I think Trump/Barr's strategy will be with today's expected executive order on the census citizenship question:
Also re-upping this, on how the Administration's expected executive order could open the door to a Democratic counteroffensive to reduce the representation of states that disenfranchise voters:
And finally, in light of today's expected executive order, I'm re-upping THIS thread on why, rather than admit SCOTUS is powerless, Chief Justice Roberts may cave in:
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JM Rieger
@RiegerReport
A White House official to The Wall Street Journal on Trump’s tweet:

“Nobody has any f—ing idea [what he’s talking about].”

wsj.com/articles/trump…
BREAKING: In a course reversal, Justice Dept. attorney says government will look for a way to add citizenship question to 2020 Census washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
In a call with a federal judge hours ago a DOJ attorney said:

“The tweet this morning was the first I had heard of the President’s position … I have confirmed that the Census Bureau is continuing with the process of printing the questionnaire without a citizenship question”
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Headsnipe011
@Headsnipe011
.@CommerceGov vs New York Transcript from Supreme Court oral argument

@drawandstrike @catesduane @rising_serpent @almostjingo @tracybeanz @TheChiIIum @Quodverum_ @DRUDGE @CarrollQuigley1

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"And that points out why he preferred asking the question and getting actual answers from 22.2 million people at 98 percent accuracy, because you simply didn't have administrative records for 35 million people, and the bureau had not yet figured out how to do that estimation."
"He then goes on to say on that same page, more than 10 percent of the American population, some 25 million voting-age people, would need to have their citizen age imputed by the Census Bureau. And so he was making clear that he'd rather go with actual counting than imputation."
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Mona
@Monaheart1229
This is a good article, talking about problems that we have to, that the GOP won't and that we CAN fix! But first, just #Vote damnit!
#SundayMotivation
The Myth of the Lazy Nonvoter
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2/"If history is any indicator, only around 40 percent of eligible voters will vote in the midterm elections. Most people assume that voter turnout remains this low because Americans are apathetic and simply don’t want to vote. But it’s more likely that most Americans do want to
3/"vote, and one of the root causes of low turnout is this country’s framework of restrictive voting laws. The United States is unique in allowing state laws to largely govern voting in federal elections. Ever since key federal protections were dismantled by the Supreme Court in
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Chris Lu
@ChrisLu44
THREAD: Newly produced documents by @CommerceGov show that Wilbur Ross sought to add citizenship question to Census on his own initiative for political reasons, not at DOJ's request to help enforce the Voting Rights Act. This directly contradicts Ross' testimony to Congress. /1
In a 3/26/18 memo, Ross claimed that DOJ "requested that the Census Bureau reinstate a citizenship question on the decennial census to provide...citizenship voting age population...to permit more effective enforcement of [Voting Rights Act]" /2 commerce.gov/sites/commerce…
At 3 separate congressional hearings in 2018 (March 20 & 22; May 10), Ross emphasized that DOJ initiated the request for citizenship question. At Ways and Means hearing on March 22, Ross said: "Because it is from the Department of Justice, we are taking it very seriously.” /3
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David Van Riper
@dcvanriper
I've been reading lots of commentary about the addition of the citizenship question to the Decennial Census. Instead of focusing on the impact the question may have on response rates, this thread examines the DOJ's arguments for why the question is needed. ht/ @colemanreedharr
I read the DOJ's letter (documentcloud.org/documents/4340…) and the Commerce Secretary's memo (documentcloud.org/documents/4424…). I want to offer a summary of the DOJ's argument and a rebuttal to aspects of that argument.
I offer this summary and rebuttal as someone who has worked with historical, small-area census data for the past 17 years @nhgis.
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