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![Debbie Dalke came to the Ohio Statehouse from Wood County to rally for "fair congressional districts."](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/img-2875-scaled-e1633035750775-900x422.jpg)
Legislature Misses The Deadline For New Congressional Map
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The Ohio Redistricting Commission is going back to work, this time drawing a new Congressional district map after state lawmakers failed to agree on… Read More
![The seven-member Ohio Redistricting Commission is made up of five Republicans - co-chair Speaker Bob Cupp, Gov. Mike DeWine, Auditor Keith Faber, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Senate President Matt Huffman. There are two Democrats on the commission: co-chair Sen. Vernon Sykes (D-Akron) and House Minority Leader Emiilia Sykes (D-Akron).](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/img-2114-scaled-e1632497436427-900x422.jpg)
A Lawsuit Has Been Filed Over Maps That Preserve Republican Supermajorities In The Ohio House And Senate
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — As expected, a lawsuit has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on behalf of the League of Women Voters of… Read More
![Ohio Redistricting Commission meets late at night on the final day of the constitutional deadline to pass maps.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Redistricting-Feature-900x422.png)
Commission Approves Final District Maps That Appear To Retain GOP Supermajorities in House, Senate
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Just after the clock struck midnight, the Ohio Redistricting Commission approved new Ohio House and Ohio Senate district maps, that are likely to guarantee… Read More
![The Ohio Statehouse in Spring](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/statehouse_spring_2021-e1620407259346-900x422.jpg)
Ohio Redistricting Commission Gets An Earful At Weekend Hearing On Proposed Legislative Maps
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Members of the panel that will approve new maps for Ohio House and Senate districts were lambasted Sunday by Ohioans who attended a public… Read More
![A sign outside of the Nelsonville voter precinct lets people know where they can vote.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1-e1478666338593-900x422.jpg)
Ohio Redistricting Commission Sets Two Meetings In One Day, Republicans Will Propose Maps
By: Andy Chow | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Majority caucus leaders in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate have been working behind the scenes on a new state legislative district map for the… Read More
![A 2020 Census Form](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/census_pic_3_konik-e1580146705840-900x422.png)
Census: Most Ohio Cities Lose Residents, But Rural Counties Shedding Population Too
By: Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Columbus continues to be the largest city in Ohio, with Cincinnati growing but Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown all getting smaller. Those… Read More
![A 2020 Census Form](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/census_pic_3_konik-e1580146705840-900x422.png)
Ohio Urges Judges To Keep Census Bureau On Data Deadline
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s solicitor general urged a panel of appellate judges to hold the U.S. Census Bureau’s feet to the fire by issuing an order that would require… Read More
![If passed, two new bills in Congress would extend the reporting deadlines for 2020 census results, which are now months overdue after the pandemic and interference by Trump officials upended last year's national count.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ap20241598956052-50e7e7ff772fe4eac30b471a7fee25402f3be226-e1618945619257-900x422.jpg)
After A Disrupted Census, Congress Tries Again To Extend Deadlines For Results
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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The 2020 census results are months overdue after COVID-19 upended the national count. Efforts to extend reporting deadlines stalled last year after Trump officials decided to cut short counting.
![A 2020 Census Form](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/census_pic_3_konik-e1580146705840-900x422.png)
Ohio Attorney General Sues Census Bureau Over Delay Of Redistricting Data
By: Debbie Holmes | Gabe Rosenberg | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office is suing officials at the U.S. Commerce Department and Census Bureau for delaying the release of 2020 census data used to redraw state legislative… Read More
![Protesters holding signs about the 2020 census gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gettyimages-1138967014-acbb167df7fec95d54b7861bb3c2572be7ab30c1-scaled-e1602657393254-900x422.jpg)
Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration To End Census Counting On Oct. 15
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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The Trump administration asked, and the Supreme Court allowed, for a suspension to a lower court order that extends the census schedule. The move sharpens the threat of an incomplete count.
![U.S. Census Bureau workers stand outside Lincoln Center in New York City in September. A federal judge has ordered the bureau to keep counting for the 2020 census through Oct. 31 for now.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gettyimages-1276516046-c911d5e4862763d018e55e531c3c42d550ab4c54-scaled-e1601663651390-900x422.jpg)
After ‘Egregious’ Violation, Judge Orders Census To Count Through Oct. 31 For Now
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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A federal judge has ordered the Census Bureau to keep counting households for now after finding the agency violated an earlier order by tweeting a “target” end date of Oct. 5.
![U.S. Census Bureau worker Marisela Gonzales adjusts a sign at a walk-up counting site for the 2020 census in Greenville, Texas, in July.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ap_20213696001163-f11e7f2503466265f64394e5a82bfb6f1ed0e959-scaled-e1598886791530-900x422.jpg)
Running Out Of Time, Census Scales Back A Critical Step: Checking Its Own Work
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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With just three months to review the 2020 census results because of a last-minute change by the Trump administration, Census Bureau officials are scrambling to decide what quality checks to toss out.
![Demonstrators rally in Washington, D.C., in April 2019 against the now-blocked citizenship question that the Trump administration tried and failed to get on the 2020 census forms.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gettyimages-1138923217-b4dbba54278ed1dbdae24d3f5720b0046289b055-scaled-e1583443550729-900x422.jpg)
10 Census Facts That Bust Common Myths About The 2020 U.S. Head Count
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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It happens only once a decade, so it can be hard to make sense of the census. NPR’s census reporter has rounded up facts that debunk some of the most common misconceptions about the national count.
![The Census Bureau is turning to existing government records, such as state driver's licenses, to try to fill in gaps in the incomplete responses it collects from its survey.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gettyimages-1154795152-b8e3390fed69d686d3e8e0419aceadc4d5076133-e1571260780524-900x422.jpg)
Census Bureau Asks States For Driver’s License Records To Produce Citizenship Data
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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The Census Bureau is gathering records on people’s U.S. citizenship status as part of Trump administration efforts to produce data that a GOP strategist said could politically benefit Republicans.
![President Trump speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2018.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/gettyimages-963722080-913025e20501cf4bd0832373ac443cab4ea8e192-e1562864655417-900x422.jpg)
Trump Expected To Renew Push For Census Citizenship Question With Executive Action
By: Hansi Lo Wang | Franco Ordoñez | NPR
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After the Supreme Court ruled to keep a citizenship question off forms for the upcoming national head count, the Trump administration is now trying to add the question by taking executive action.
![The printing of 1.5 billion paper forms and other mailings for the 2020 census was scheduled to begin on July 1.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/dsc0714-b9c3da5cda6622e4a29bee6bf98dce10fb73c2e3-e1562083148915-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration’s Delay In Census Printing Sets Up Count’s ‘Biggest Risk’
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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The Trump administration appears to have delayed the printing of 1.5 billion paper forms and other mailings for next year’s count as it decides whether to try again to add a citizenship question.
![The Supreme Court justices are hearing oral arguments Tuesday over the citizenship question the Trump administration wants to add to forms for the 2020 census.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ap_19078541574413-1f3524e508bca83b96e258bcc4f58e26bad96795-e1556044176336-900x422.jpg)
Supreme Court Appears To Lean Toward Allowing Census Citizenship Question
By: Hansi Lo Wang | Nina Totenberg | NPR
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The justices are weighing whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. A decision is expected this summer, when printing of the census forms is set to begin.
![U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham leads the agency in charge of carrying out the upcoming national head count of every person living in the country.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/census-bureau-edit-ab3c3b84620bfac984fb50a9884fdb129acb9ee4-e1554213257392-900x422.jpg)
Census Bureau Must Be ‘Totally Objective’ On Citizenship Question, Director Says
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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Responding to President Trump’s tweet defending the controversial question, Steven Dillingham says his job will be “to conduct a census whether the question’s in there or if it isn’t.”
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2020 Census Public Meeting
Community Members, Civic Organizations, Local Governments & Everyone Else is invited to a public meeting about the 2020 Census. Rose Simmons, Partnership Coordinator with the U.S. Census Bureau, will discuss:… Read More
![Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stands behind President Trump during a bill signing ceremony at the White House in 2018. Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gettyimages-1051904442-95fcd57c5e8f167651b9f10558f30a4757bf0f41-e1547770656207-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Blocking Citizenship Question On 2020 Census
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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The Trump administration is asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the first major court ruling over plans to add a question about U.S. citizenship status to the 2020 census.
![Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved adding a question about U.S. citizenship status to the 2020 census.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gettyimages-980322512-eb6363740a5e1d883298aa2195ace472892edead-e1547568336954-900x422.jpg)
Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question
By: Hansi Lo Wang | NPR
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A federal judge in New York has issued the first ruling out of multiple lawsuits over a question about U.S. citizenship status. The ruling is expected to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.
![Nancy Pelosi of California (third from right), now House speaker, joins fellow Democrats, including Reps. José Serrano of New York and Elijah Cummings of Maryland, as well as other census advocates at a May 2018 press conference in Washington, D.C., about the new citizenship question on the 2020 census.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ap_18128650898172-9a36ecdf82d9c1478de3255f428d722e61c63241-e1547144002529-900x422.jpg)
Hurdles Remain As The Final Countdown Begins For The 2020 Census
The upcoming head count of every person living in the U.S. will reset how power and money are shared through 2030. But the citizenship question and other controversies may derail preparations.