Census Delay Could Mean Later Candidate Filing And Elections For Missouri
Originally published on February 19, 2021 7:46 am The COVID-19 pandemic threw off a whole lot of political events — including when critical U.S. Census data would be ready, and that delay could push back redistricting and even elections. The Census Bureau announced last week that it would deliver redistricting data to the states on Sept. 30. That’s highly problematic for states with strict deadlines before that date to finish the once-every-10-years process, like Illinois. But Missouri has the opposite problem. Because of the amount of time built into the process to draw state House and...