Mar 9, 2021
U.S. Census Bureau officials have once more pushed back the delivery date for data that will be used for redrawing congressional, state and local legislative districts to the end of September.
“The biggest reason? COVID-19. It’s something beyond the Census Bureau’s control,” said Kathleen Styles, the Census Bureau’s chief of Decennial Communications and Stakeholder Relations.
Among other changes, purportedly brought on during the pandemic, is that data is no longer being released to states on a flow basis. For some states, that data will come after their legal deadline to redraw districts. Lawmakers there will have to find a workaround.