Fight Over Census Redistricting Brewing

In the next three weeks the Census Bureau must decide to use the actual 2000 census count or rely on sampling.

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February 16, 2001, 7:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"This time, unlike the court battles that settled last year's presidential election, Mr. Bush hopes to rely on the precedent of a 1999 high-court ruling to prevent states from using statistically revised census numbers to redraw congressional districts. The strategy won't affect Mr. Bush's own electoral prospects, but House Republicans believe it could increase their chance of winning as many as a dozen races in the 2002 midterm congressional elections." This is one in a series of articles by the Wall Street Journal in their in-depth coverage of U.S. Census data and related politial issues.

Thanks to Tom Collins

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