Purity of the ballot box, an echo of Jim Crow, stricken from Texas voting bill
FacebookTwitterEmail
1of5
Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, center, stands with co-sponsors as he answers questions and speaks in favor of HB 6, an election bill, in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Thursday, May 6, 2021.Eric Gay, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
2of5
Gerald Welty sits the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol as he waits to hear debate on voter legislation in Austin, Texas, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Eric Gay, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
3of5
Democratic lawmakers gather in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol as they wait to hear debate on voter legislation in Austin, Texas, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Eric Gay, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
Hijacked gloves, politicization concerns in 2020 census
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
FacebookTwitterEmail
FILE - This April 5, 2020, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. Michigan s slow population growth over the past decade will cost the state a U.S. House seat, continuing a decades-long trend as job-seekers and retirees have fled to other states.Paul Sancya/AP
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) U.S. Census Bureau officials on Thursday recapped the challenges of executing the nation s head count, which included hijacked personal protective equipment for census takers, difficulty getting access to tribal lands because of pandemic restrictions and worry that nonprofits wouldn t want to partner with the statistical agency because of the Trump administration’s failed effort to add a citizenship question to the census.