A Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census “would be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites”
It’s what advocates have been saying all along. Adding a question on citizenship would have dramatic negative impacts on Latinx voters.
Common Cause has obtained new evidence confirming how political operatives have spent years plotting to rig our democracy with a Census citizenship question.
The New York Times and other news sources have publicized the shocking documents, written by the GOP’s chief gerrymandering mastermind Thomas Hofeller, which lays out a plan to add the citizenship question on the Census.
Their purpose? Manipulating our Census and redistricting process to be, in Hofeller’s words, “advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.”
You can read the documents, and learn more, here.
As the New York Times reported:
“[Hofeller] wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats…
The disclosures represent the most explicit evidence to date that the Trump administration added the question to the 2020 census to advance Republican Party interests.”
Ang mga dokumento ni Hofeller ay isang “smoking gun” — inilalantad nang eksakto kung paano siya at ang kanyang mga kapwa operatiba ay nagtrabaho upang pahinain ang integridad ng ating Census, manipulahin ang muling distrito, at i-rig ang mga halalan para sa partisan na kalamangan.
Hofeller went on to help write a draft DOJ letter that argued the question would help enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act (which ensures that minorities’ voting rights are protected). And the Trump admin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross have used that same argument. This study shows the administration wants to use the question to give Republicans an electoral advantage. Common Cause argues that the goal isn’t about protecting voting rights. Instead, it’s about diluting the voting power of minorities.
Ngayong nahayag na ang kanilang plano, mahalaga para sa ating lahat – ang mga korte, pinuno, at mga tao – na manindigan para sa isang demokrasya na kinabibilangan ng bawat boses ng Amerika. |
