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How A Delay In Redistricting Threatens Black And Asian Voters

by DC Editors - April 5, 2021

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How A Delay In Redistricting Threatens Black And Asian VotersJuan Alejandro Olarte-Cortes by Erie News:

Sheryl Threadgill-Matthews is paying close attention to how a delay in the release of redistricting data by the US Census Bureau could affect Alabama’s Black community.

Last month, the Census Bureau announced that it won’t be delivering data that state lawmakers and redistricting commissions use to redraw legislative districts until the end of September 2021.

Threadgill-Matthews is a board member for her local branch of the Alabama New South Coalition, an organization that works to mobilize Black voters in Alabama. Her concerns come as her home state’s neighbor, Georgia, is the center of the national conversation over voting rights after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 202, which voting rights groups have said would target Black residents and other voters of color in the state.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Minority Voting Rights, Redistricting, Voter Access

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