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Will Trumps Plan B To Use Census For An Anti-Immigrant Power Grab Even Work?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-census-bureau-citizenship-existing-records-accuracy
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By Tierney Sneed
August 14, 2019 11:15 am
The Census Bureau says it can obtain the data President Trump will need to facilitate a game-changing, GOP-boosting redistricting overhaul. The outside experts who work with redistricting data arent so sure.
Having failed in his attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Trump resorted to what amounts to a backup plan: an executive order commanding the Census Bureau to use existing government records to come up with citizenship data.
The overhaul is part of a broad effort to let states exclude noncitizens in how they draw legislative maps, which would increase representation for Republican-leaning whites, while diminishing the political power of diverse, immigrant-friendly communities.
The Census Bureau told Congress recently that it would be producing the kinds of citizenship data that would let red states exclude noncitizens from consideration in redistricting. However, redistricting experts and outside census wonks TPM spoke to in the last few weeks raised several concerns about the accuracy of the citizenship data the Census Bureau will be producing.
Doubts about the accuracy and validity of the census data could open lines of legal attack on redistricting efforts that rely on the data, foreshadowing a new wave of redistricting challenges in 2021.
It is, I think, a very big question and whether or not this thing could really be pulled off, Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services Inc. told TPM.
In written answers submitted to Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) that were shared with TPM Tuesday, the Census Bureau signaled it was moving full steam ahead with the effort.
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In the answers, the Census Bureau confirmed that it was producing block level data on citizen voting age population.
Block level refers to the geographical units that make up the basis of the decennial census. Its the level of granularity provided in the data that states use for redistricting every 10 years. Citizen voting age population or CVAP is the type of data thats been sought by conservative advocates, who have pushed for the redistricting overhaul that would counteract the demographic changes that are currently benefiting Democrats.............................................
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