Florida court tosses GOP suit attempting to influence elections by challenging U.S. census
A Florida court dismissed a lawsuit* Tuesday that challenged some of the U.S. Census Bureau’s methods for estimating the population, a critically important process that determines how many votes each state receives in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the electoral college during presidential elections.
The case was part of a broader Republican effort to increase the power of GOP-controlled states by changing how the U.S. population is counted.
Two Young Republican groups filed the lawsuit in September, asking a federal court to order the bureau to “create a new 2020 Census report that does not use statistical methods” and prohibit those methods in the next census in 2030. They argued that the methods in question led to an undercount of the population in Florida that reduced the state’s electoral power.
But the court concluded that the four-year statute of limitations to challenge the methods used in the 2020 census had run out by the time the lawsuit was filed. The case was dismissed without prejudice, and plaintiffs have 14 days to amend and refile their complaint.
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