Delayed census data kicks off flood of redistricting lawsuits

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States are months away from getting the census data they need to draw new political maps, but courts are already filling up with lawsuits challenging the redistricting process

05/01/2021 07:00 AM EDT.

"We will see a lot of lawsuits," said Kathay Feng, the national redistricting director at the good government group Common Cause, chuckling at a question about how much litigation there will be this redistricting cycle. Redistricting, she said, “is always a breeding ground for people who are discontent with the results.”

. Redistricting data, the more granular data that includes demographic information over small geographic areas, is not expected until later this summer.incompatible with the new release calendarThe delay could also have a downstream effect on lawsuits that challenge the eventual map lines once they’re drawn.

Ohio was the first state to file a case, which was dismissed by federal district court, a decision the state appealed. Alabama also filed a federal lawsuit challenging both the release schedule and the use of “differential privacy,” a process that will blur demographic data on small geographic levels. The Census Bureau says it is necessary to protect any one individual from being identified, but mapmakers fear it makes the data functionally unusable.

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