Hansi Lewong
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1,354 appearances
172 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
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The Commerce Department says that privacy technique has been used indiscriminately and undermined confidence in its statistics.
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But data experts are concerned the bureau may have to stop releasing official numbers about rural and local communities.
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Anzi Luang, NPR News.
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Delaware's Democratic Governor Matt Myers is signing the latest state-level Voting Rights Act after a similar bill in New Jersey became law in July.
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There are about a dozen state laws like those around the country.
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The newest ones come months after the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority further weakened the federal Voting Rights Act.
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Legal experts say that ruling has made it extremely difficult in places where voting is racially polarized to challenge redistricting plans for shutting out minority voters from an opportunity to elect their preferred candidate.
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Delaware and New Jersey's laws offer minority voters additional protections in local redistricting and requirements for language assistance.
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Some legal experts, though, are bracing for new lawsuits that may end up bringing certain State Voting Rights Act protections to the Supreme Court for review.
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Hansi Lewong, NPR News.
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What's known as the 90-day quiet period before federal elections is beginning in the 44 states plus Washington, D.C.
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that must follow the 1993 National Voter Registration Act.
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Those states are supposed to have finished any program for systematically removing ineligible voters from their rolls.
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Congress passed this ban on late mass purges to make sure any eligible voters who mistakenly get flagged have enough time to resolve problems and vote.
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The Trump administration and Republican officials in states like Ohio are pushing courts to change how that ban works.
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They argue it does not apply to programs for removing non-U.S.
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citizens.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an Arizona case about this issue during its next term.
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In 2024, the high court allowed a late purge in Virginia that canceled registrations of U.S.
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