Communication 09 How To draw Redistricting Plans That Will Stand Up In Court

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But generally, the federal courts will not simply accept an alte Rather, they will first check to see whether the districts are o on Census Bureau figures. If they are not, the courts will stri So, if you want your plans to stand up in court, the easiest way population counts. 2.Use of Sampling to Eliminate Undercount In the 1990s, the main political fight over how to count the pop compensate for the historic undercounting of racial and ethnic m the City of New York and other plaintiffs that sought to compel statistical adjustment to the population data to account for peo Bureau agreed to make a fresh determination of whether there sh an undercount or overcount in the 1990 census. The Bureau agreed survey of at least 150,000 households to use as the basis for th by July 15, 1991, it would either publish adjusted population da not making the adjustment. Any population data published before published December 31, 1990, and the block totals published Apri that they were subject to correction by July 15. The Bureau ult statistical adjustment to correct for the undercount, and the Su was reasonable and within the discretion of the Secretary of Com Census Bureau is located. Wisconsin v. City of New York,517 U.S. 1 (1996). For the 2000 census, the fight was over whether to use scientifi conduct the census from the beginning, rather than adjusting the been issued. The Census Bureau proposed that, in order to obtain of the households in each census tract, it would use statistical characteristics of the households that did not respond to the fi questionnaire. In each census tract, the fewer households that be the size of the sample enumerators would contact directly as addresses that would be included in the sample would be scientif they were statistically representative of all nonresponding hous Congress attempted to stop the use of sampling by enacting Pub. L. No. 105-119, § 209 (j), 111 Stat. 2480 (1997), which required that all data releases for of persons enumerated without using statistical methods. It als whether the Bureaus plan to use sampling for apportioning seats In Department of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives,525 U.S. 316 (1999), the Supreme Court ruled that the Census Act prohibits the use of sam representatives in Congress among the states. It did not rule o sampling to determine the distribution of population within each its apportionment of congressional seats or the seats in its sta 8