A New Delay for Census Numbers Could Scramble Congressional Elections
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- Publish Date:
- February 11, 2021
- Author(s):
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- Wines, Michael ,
- Bazelon, Emily
- Source:
- The New York Times
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Summary
“If the necessary data aren’t available at the time the law says the state redistricting must be done, then a court could relax the deadline,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford law professor and co-director of the Stanford-M.I.T. Healthy Elections Project. In some states, courts granted similar pandemic-related extensions for deadlines related to balloting procedures in the November election, like voting by mail.