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August 6, 2020 at 4:11 pm

At the Census Bureau, a technical memo raises alarms over politics

Some experts inside and outside the Census Bureau see the memorandum as the precursor to an effort to manipulate population figures to give Republicans an...

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May 29, 2020 at 4:14 pm

Trump’s ‘looting’ remark dates to racial unrest of the 1960s

WASHINGTON — An incendiary phrase used by President Donald Trump in a tweet about the protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis appears to have...

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FILE – In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020 file photo,People walk past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. A top lawmaker says the Trump administration is seeking to delay deadlines for the 2020 census because of the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney said Monday, April 13, 2020 that administration officials also were asking that the timetable for releasing apportionment and redistricting data used to draw congressional and legislative districts be pushed back.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) NYMV202 NYMV202

April 13, 2020 at 9:19 pm

Knocked off track by coronavirus, Census announces delay in 2020 count

The bureau said it would ask that delivery of the final census figures be postponed to April 31, 2021 — 120 days beyond the existing...

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October 24, 2019 at 8:57 am

The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It.

AUSTIN, Texas — At Austin Community College, civics is an unwritten part of the curriculum — so much so that for years the school has...

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November 17, 2018 at 6:50 pm

Fierce elections emphasize flaws in voting process

Nearly two decades after voting problems in a handful of Florida counties paralyzed the nation, the United States’ election grid this month remained a crazy...

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November 6, 2018 at 9:01 pm

Voting problems surface as Americans go to the polls

From closed polling sites to malfunctioning machines, Election Day brought frustration for some voters in contests shadowed by questions about the security and fairness of...

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March 27, 2018 at 7:23 pm

Washington joins other states suing over Census citizenship question

At least 12 states, including Washington, argue that the change to the 2020 census would lead to fewer Americans being counted and would violate the...

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December 24, 2017 at 4:35 pm

Alabama black vote highlights debate over election laws

The turnout by black voters in Alabama raises a question: Did it come about because voting restrictions were not as powerful as critics claim or...

July 1, 2017 at 3:36 pm

Trump commission seeks data on voters; many states resist

President Donald Trump is upset that all states aren’t fully cooperating with his voting commission’s request for detailed information about every voter in the United...

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A photograph of Rosa Ortega, a permanent resident sentenced to eight years in prison for voting illegally, with relatives, in Dallas, Texas, Feb. 9, 2017. Clark Birdsall, her attorney, noted that Ortega was brought to the United States as an infant and called her conviction an egregious overreaction. “She has a sixth-grade education,” he said. “She didn’t know she wasn’t legal.” (Dylan Hollingsworth/The New York Times)

February 10, 2017 at 5:09 pm

Vote-fraud ‘whipping boy’? Texas woman gets 8 years in prison

Amid GOP claims that illegal voting is widespread, Rosa Maria Ortega, a permanent U.S. resident who voted illegally in 2012 and 2014, faces harsh punishment...

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