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There are glaring factual problems with the florida lawsuit and recent critiques of the 2020 Census DP usage. (See 1.) Whether they're not aware or intentionall
by censusnerd 3mo ago
There are glaring factual problems with the florida lawsuit and recent critiques of the 2020 Census DP usage. (See 1.) Whether they're not aware or intentionally malicious, critics who claim the constitutional issue say that DP was applied to state-level counts. But disclosure avoidance (such as DP noise) was never applied to state-level population counts used for congressional apportionment---which is the constitutional purpose. There is no constitutional argument here. Drawing districts using block-level data is a totally different issue (a statutory not constitutional one), and disclosure avoidance was applied to those statistics.
1 https://apnews.com/article/2020-census-bureau-redistricting-statistics-differential-privacy-12a70432d2f55b075abc6e6f8799fe73 https://apnews.com/article/2020-census-bureau-redistricting-...
- onetimeusename 3mo agoI wasn't referring to the Florida lawsuit and don't know anything about it. I was referring to the Alabama lawsuit which was dismissed without prejudice[1] because it was premature. The relevant constitutional issue is the redistricting balance since it has to follow the "one person, one vote" principle. [1]: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/blog/view/636 https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/blog/vi...