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FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state of Ohio that tried to get the U.S. Census Bureau to provide data used for drawing congressional and legislative districts ahead of its planned release. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

16 states back Alabama’s challenge to Census privacy tool

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 25, 2020, file photo, two young children hold signs through the car window that make reference to the 2020 U.S. Census as they wait in the car with their family at an outreach event in Dallas. A delay in census data is scrambling plans in some states to redraw districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures. The Census Bureau has said redistricting data that was supposed to be provided to states by the end of March won't be ready until August or September. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Biden picks first person of color to head Census fulltime

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 1, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a mask walks past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. A delay in census data is scrambling plans in some states to redraw districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures. The Census Bureau has said redistricting data that was supposed to be provided to states by the end of March won't be ready until August or September. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

EXPLAINER: What the release of 2020 census numbers means

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 1, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a mask walks past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. A delay in census data is scrambling plans in some states to redraw districts for the U.S. House and state legislatures. The Census Bureau has said redistricting data that was supposed to be provided to states by the end of March won't be ready until August or September. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Groups: Census privacy tool could hurt voting rights goals

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. Alabama on Wednesday became the second state to challenge the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to delay by six months the release of data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts, as it took aim at the accuracy of a privacy protection system that it alleged is holding up the process.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Federal judge nixes Ohio’s push for early redistricting data

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2019, photo, Donya Grant, center, works on a homeschool lesson with her son Kemper, 14, as her daughter Rowyn, 11, works at right, at their home in Monroe, Wash. The rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of the pandemic last spring to the start of the new school year last September, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report released this week. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Homeschooling doubled from pandemic’s start to last fall

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. Alabama on Wednesday became the second state to challenge the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to delay by six months the release of data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts, as it took aim at the accuracy of a privacy protection system that it alleged is holding up the process.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Lawmakers frustrated over delay in Census redistricting data

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. Alabama on Wednesday became the second state to challenge the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to delay by six months the release of data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts, as it took aim at the accuracy of a privacy protection system that it alleged is holding up the process.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Redistricting data may be ready a month early, in old format

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. Alabama on Wednesday became the second state to challenge the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to delay by six months the release of data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts, as it took aim at the accuracy of a privacy protection system that it alleged is holding up the process.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Cities, groups aim to stop Ohio’s push for early census data

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Alabama sues to stop redistricting delay, privacy initiative

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Corrine Bakken, 93, of West Fargo, becomes the first patient of the state’s largest private hospital, Sanford Health, to receive the COVID-10 vaccine on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Fargo, N.D. The coronavirus forced Bakken to retire from her job as a special needs paraprofessional and says she wants to be vaccinated to see her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. After the shot she said, “Now I can live to be 100.” (AP Photo/Sanford Health)

Strong start, but hardly a vaccine victory in North Dakota

By DAVE KOLPACK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2020 file photo, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, center, calls to order the 55th Electoral College at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio on Thursday, Feb.25, 2021, became the first state to challenge the U.S. Census Bureau's decision to push back the release of 2020 census figures so more time can be spent on fixing any inaccuracies in the data. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Ohio is first state to sue Census Bureau over delay in data

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

This combination of photos shows people riding bicycles in New York's Times Square, left, on April 29, 2020, and in Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Ala., March 12, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. The human loss from the pandemic isn’t going to be reflected in the U.S. population count used for divvying up congressional seats among the states. And that could save a congressional seat for New York but cost Alabama one. (AP Photo)

In U-turn, feds defend including undocumented in House count

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Pennsylvania may need to delay 2022 primary, lawmaker says

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2020 file photo, a flashing sign near the iconic &quot;Freedom Tower,&quot; advises people to fill out their census forms in downtown Miami. The U.S. Census Bureau said it won’t be delivering data used for redrawing state and local legislative districts until the end of September 2021. That will cause headaches for state lawmakers and redistricting commissions facing deadlines to redraw state legislative districts this year. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Census: No redistricting data until end of September

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

FILE - This April 5, 2020, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to end the 2020 census was another case of whiplash for the census, which has faced stops from the pandemic, natural disasters and court rulings. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

US House data not ready until April, states’ data after July

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Time, transparency needed as Biden inherits frazzled census

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

U.S. Census Director Steven Dillingham pauses after speaking at a news conference to urge Arizonans to participate in the nation's once-a-decade census population count Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Phoenix. Ending the 2020 census at the end of September instead of the end of October, could cost Florida and Montana congressional seats and result in Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina losing $500 million in federal funding for healthcare for its neediest residents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Census Bureau director to resign amid criticism over data

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Howard Jones, an 83-year-old veteran, talks about his struggle to secure a COVID-19 vaccination in El Paso County while seated on the deck outside his home Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in southwest Colorado Springs, Colo. Not having internet in his home, Jones ended up getting help from a friend to get an appointment for the vaccine in Colorado Springs. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Online sign-ups complicate vaccine rollout for older people

By PATTY NIEBERG and SUMAN NAISHADHAM - Associated Press

FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. The U.S. Census Bureau has denied any attempts to systemically falsify information during the 2020 head count used to determine the allocation of congressional seats and federal spending. The Census Bureau statement was issued Monday night, Nov. 9, in response to reports by The Associated Press of census workers who said they were told by supervisors to enter fake answers on the head-count forms in order to close cases in the waning days of the census. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump appointees pressure Census for report on undocumented

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press