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Texas taxpayers shell out millions to defend redistricting maps

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Oct 25, 2022
The GOP-approved maps have drawn the ire of civil rights groups.
Kelly Nguyen knocks on doors in Houston's Chinatown, encouraging Asian Americans to vote.
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Release of 2020 census data starts countdown to congressional redistricting

by Kimberly Adams
Aug 12, 2021
Redrawing congressional maps is an expensive process — one that will shape U.S. politics for the next 10 years.
People gathered at the Supreme Court in June 2019 as decisions on census questions were handed down. The Census Bureau released its first local data Thursday.
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Voting rights advocates equate fees to modern-day poll tax

by Candace Manriquez Wrenn , Sasa Woodruff and David Brancaccio
Jul 31, 2019
In most states, a felony conviction can result in the loss of voting rights for some period of time.
Voters cast ballots in Chestertown, Maryland, in October 2018.
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State-level redistricting fights involve plenty of money moves

by Kimberly Adams
Sep 3, 2018
The Labor Day weekend signals the last campaigning and fundraising push before the midterm elections.
Activists march to Senate Hart Office Building June 25, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Common Cause, American Promise, Take Back Our Republic and Represent Us and Fix It America co-hosted an event and visits to congressional members from New Mexico to urge the Congress to support 'the Fix It America Constitutional Amendment to reign in the influence of big money in politics and curb the abuses of gerrymandering in the redistricting process.'
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