States Must Use Appropriate Data For Redistricting

Last week Texas Progressive Action Network joined with fifty-eight other organizations and individuals in a signed a letter to “unequivocally affirm the basic principle that it is not appropriate to implement electoral district lines based primarily on American Community Survey (ACS) data” and calling on states to draw districts using decennial census population data.

For more on this issue, check out: Census data delay scrambles plans for state redistricting

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