Thread by @hansilowang

BREAKING: Redistricting data from the 2020 census will be released on Aug. 12, the Census Bureau says, after months of delays caused by the pandemic and Trump officials’ interference with the count’s schedule

https://twitter.com/uscensusbureau/status/1423351861160161291

2. The Aug. 12 release date for 2020 census redistricting data is four days earlier than the previously announced deadline of Aug. 16.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
npr.org/2021/08/05/102…

3. The 2020 census redistricting data files are expected to be uploaded to the @uscensusbureau's FTP site at 1 p.m. ET on Aug. 12.

Here's the direct link:
www2.census.gov/programs-surve…

@uscensusbureau 4. COVID-19 and the Trump administration's interference have forced the bureau to put out 2020 census redistricting data about five months later than its original schedule in order to run more quality checks.

Here are the receipts ICYMI:
npr.org/2020/09/18/911…

@uscensusbureau 5. The delay has eaten into the time to prepare new voting maps in many parts of the U.S., cranking up the pressure in what's usually a contentious and highly partisan process of redistributing political representation based on the population totals from the once-a-decade census.

@uscensusbureau 6. The Aug. 12 release of the 2nd major set of 2020 census results is coming amid a string of controversies that have raised questions about the data's quality, including the Trump admin's failed push for a citizenship question.

Here's the backstory;
npr.org/2021/02/15/967…

@uscensusbureau 7. Many data users are also concerned about the usability of 2020 census redistricting data about rural and small geographic areas because of the effects of the agency's new differential privacy protection system.

Here's my explainer:
npr.org/2021/05/19/993…