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Letter to Virginia Redistricting Commission on Language and Disability Access Deficiencies
The undersigned call upon the members of the Virginia Redistricting Commission (“Commission”) to end English-only community engagement practices and actions that impair the equal opportunities of limited-English proficient (LEP) and disabled Virginians from participating in the redistricting process. As the Commission engages in a critical phase of its work, nearing the end of the redistricting process, we strongly urge it to quickly improve the ability of LEP and disabled Virginians and communities to understand and comment on the work of the Commission.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC Applauds the Confirmation of Robert Santos for Director of the U.S. Census Bureau
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the Senate confirmed Robert Santos on a bipartisan basis to serve as the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, a national Asian American policy advocacy organization, issues the following statement:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC Applauds Nomination of Dale Ho to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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Washington, D.C.—Today, President Biden nominated Dale Ho to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ho currently serves as Director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project and supervises the ACLU’s voting rights litigation nationwide.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC issues the following statement:
Growing Communities of Color & Redistricting: A Statement from the Voting Rights Working Group
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STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 16, 2021
Every generation has a moment of awakening. This year provided a few seminal moments that threatened to either rip the Nation apart or bring us together. The Asian American community became the target for those looking to blame COVID-19 on someone. Instantly, our community was dealing with the dual pandemic of the coronavirus and racism. Several politicians stoked those embers of hate with rhetoric that firmly put a bullseye on the back of every Asian American.
Fair Districting Builds an Inclusive Democracy
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Washington, DC – The U.S.
Redistricting has been used in the past to exclude our communities from political power. How district lines are drawn influences who runs for public office and who is elected. The lines also affect how responsive elected representatives are to your community when they make decisions important to your lives, from ensuring safe schools to adopting immigration policies.
Census data should be used to draw final redistricting maps because census data is based on an actual count of the U.S. population and provides greater geographic specificity and accuracy than ACS data. ACS estimates, by contrast, are just that: estimates that come with the margins of error associated with any survey. That margin of error makes it hard to draw maps with the population precision required by the Constitution.