NEW: If you thought COVID-19 scrambling our elections was over, I have bad news — 2022 will still see filing deadlines & primaries being delayed and legal/legislative battles, this time over pandemic-related delays of Census data needed for redistricting businessinsider.com/why-census-del…
2020 was like the Book of Revelations: Census edition — the census' enumeration process was upended by the pandemic, extreme weather events that disrupted operations, and the Trump admin's drawn-out legal fights over various aspects of the Census businessinsider.com/why-census-del…
Redistricting data that states need to redraw districts could be delayed until Sept. 30, 6 months after its normal statutory deadline, largely because the challenges of the 2020 count created more errors & anomalies that need to be resolved on the back end businessinsider.com/why-census-del…
So what's a state to do? Some options @ElectionBen raised to me are: seeking reprieve from courts, pushing back filing deadlines & primaries, and even redistricting sooner based on the next-best available data and then fix lines as needed w Census data businessinsider.com/why-census-del…
just as luck would have it, this exact topic just came up a Georgia legislative hearing over HB 531, a giant elections-related omnibus package — the latest version of the bill has a provision about reapportionment of municipal districts w/ census delays livestream.com/accounts/25225…
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