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.”
Các tài liệu của Hofeller là “bằng chứng rõ ràng” — vạch trần chính xác cách thức ông ta và đồng bọn làm suy yếu tính toàn vẹn của cuộc điều tra dân số, thao túng việc phân chia lại khu vực bầu cử và gian lận bầu cử để giành lợi thế cho đảng phái.
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.
Bây giờ khi kế hoạch của họ đã bị tiết lộ, điều quan trọng đối với tất cả chúng ta – tòa án, các nhà lãnh đạo và người dân – là phải đứng lên vì một nền dân chủ có sự tham gia của mọi người dân Mỹ. |
