WBGZ Radio 2/17/2021 |
By Cole Lauterbach - Illinois Radio Network
With the U.S. Census now pushing back the expected date of their decennial release of information into the window of the 2022 primary election process, Illinois’ political remapping process is facing new uncertainties.
Census officials announced Friday that they would be delayed by six months in distributing reapportionment data to states so that they can redraw their political boundaries. Their new deadline for data distribution is Sept. 30.
In Illinois, it was already expected that the state would miss its June 30 deadline to have an approved reapportionment but the new deadline is a month into when candidates are to gather petitions for the March primary elections. It’s likely impossible to collect signatures for districts when candidates aren’t sure where their district’s boundaries lie.
Georgia Recorder
Gov. Brian Kemp and his wife Marty wore Census 2020 masks at the Capitol in September to promote census participation. The pandemic has put the Census Bureau months behind schedule, which could create hiccups creating districts for the 2022 election in Georgia. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
The demographic data lawmakers use to redraw Georgiaâs Congressional and legislative districts will be delayed this year because of COVID-19, and what the once-a-decade remapping will look like is anyoneâs guess.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced Friday it wonât release the population data states need to create their new boundaries and distribute billions of federal money until Sept. 30 â six months later than that data is typically made available.
(The Center Square) – With the U.S. Census now pushing back the expected date of their decennial release of information into the window of the 2022 primary election process, Illinois’ political remapping process is facing new uncertain.
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WASHINGTON The U.S. Census Bureau won’t be releasing population data needed to redraw state legislative and congressional district boundaries until Sept. 30 six months after that data is typically made available.
The latest pandemic-spurred delay, announced by bureau officials on Friday, hugely scrambles the once-a-decade redistricting process for states with deadlines looming this year.
It also wreaks havoc on the 2022 elections, with prospective candidates uncertain whether they’ll still be living within a district’s boundaries.
For some states, like Colorado, the new timeline makes it impossible to craft and approve new maps by the constitutionally mandated deadline. Those maps are required to be finished by mid-September, two weeks before officials on the state’s new redistricting commissions will even receive the final population data.
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