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Triad Cities Awaiting Census Data May Delay Elections by David Ford 4:49pm Feb 17, 2021 The General Assembly passed new legislative maps for the 2020 election, including the House districts in the Triad. Credit: North Carolina General Assembly   Update your browser or Flash plugin The U.S. Census faced severe challenges in 2020. There were natural disasters, a pandemic, earlier deadlines — and the fallout is being felt locally. Last Friday, State Board of Elections officials were told that local district data based on the census results — used to draw new maps �...

Dr. thomas hefler was a republican redistricting expert. wrote a study in 2015 that said this redistricting would be advantageous to republicans and non-hispanics to use citizen voting age, as you bring up. many people didn't see these documents until he died. his daughter discovered them on thumb drives. they came to the attention of the aclu, elizabeth, which brought that issue to the high court, but until today, and we don't even know if the justices will do it today, the aclu has not responded to that issue and whether they'll consider that in this. hold that thought, jessica schneider, my...

Conservative justices seemed to indicate it was well within the commerce secretary's wilbur ross' right to add this to the census but since then the aclu has discovered this trove of documents they say proves an improper motivation in adding this question. specifically they point to this study from a redistricting expert who said by counting the citizen voting age population it would significantly advantage republicans and non-hispanic whites. now, that evidence was not considered by the supreme court arguments and that's exactly why the aclu has asked the court to delay its decision until mor...

That the secretary of commerce, wilbur ross, did not act in good faith. that's a big deal when you're talking about something as important as the census. it might sound boring but it's incredibly important to our democracy. >> wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, has maintained, ron brownstein, he's acted well within, you know, what he can and can't adhere to the census but this is political as well and that's your expertise on this. we have the house oversight committee, just recently finding wilbur ross and the attorney general bill barr in contempt because they refuse to turn over documents...