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The Gerrymander That’s Not Being Fixed

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February 8, 2018 12:12 p.m.

The Census Bureau quietly announced Wednesday that for its 2020 survey, it will continue to count prisoners as residents of the communities where they’re incarcerated, not of their home communities.

In doing so, it missed a chance to make our badly skewed election system a little bit fairer.

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