State s high court floats redistricting extension amid delay
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Oregon Secretary Of State Warns Redistricting Delay Could Upend 2022 Election
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Oregon lawmakers’ ability to redraw legislative lines in question, with census data delayed OregonLive.com 2/6/2021 Hillary Borrud, oregonlive.com © Dave Killen/The Oregonian/oregonlive.com/TNS Members of the Oregon House were sworn in for the 81st Legislative Assembly at the Oregon State Capitol on Mon., Jan 11, 2021. Delays at the U.S. Census Bureau due to COVID-19 and lawsuits mean the Legislature will not receive data it needs for redistricting until after a July 1 state constitutional deadline to finish redrawing those electoral lines.
Oregon lawmakers are trying to figure out how to hold onto their role redrawing the state’s legislative election maps, now that it is clear the census data they need to complete the work will arrive too late.
Suburban, Bend districts will shrink in revised maps
A delay in U.S. Census data prods lawmakers to seek extension of July 1 deadline.
State legislative districts on Portland s west and east sides, plus Central Oregon, will have to shrink in the next redrawing of boundary lines because their population growth exceeded the average in the past decade.
Members of the Senate Redistricting Committee also were told that federal census data, the basis for redrawing the district lines, will be released a month after the state constitutional deadline of July 1. Democratic and Republican committee leaders, plus their counterparts in the House, asked the Legislature s lawyers to seek an extension from the Oregon Supreme Court.