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But that isn’t entirely what’s been going on. In at least one example at the commissions’ public input hearing Tuesday in Arvada, a woman who painted herself as an everyday Jane Q. Public and implied no political connection gave specific map suggestions to the commissions after being coached by a paid political consultant. After The Gazette began asking questions about the episode, it has been reported as part of a paid lobbying effort. And while that’s not against the law, the constitutional amendments passed by voters that created the independent redistricting commissions came with ...

When U.S. Census Bureau workers couldn’t find out any information about some households after repeatedly mailing them questionnaire reminders and sending census takers to knock on their doors, the statisticians turned to an obscure, last-resort statistical technique known as “imputation.” Less than 1% of households were counted using the technique during the 2020 census. But…

The U.S. Census Bureau had a last-resort solution for getting information on households that failed to respond to the once-a-decade headcount

This cycle, the stakes could not be higher.