Cuomo asks NY attorney general to review legal options after state loses House seat in census count
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked state Attorney General Letitia James to review legal options after the state came just 89 residents short of maintaining all of its congressional districts in the 2020 US Census Bureau count.
A Democratic stronghold in Congress, the state is set to lose one of its seats in the US House of Representatives ahead of the 2022 midterm elections and an Electoral College vote as a result of the agency's count. "Census takers in New York faced unprecedented challenges last year in their efforts to get New Yorkers counted -- from the pandemic's effect on the mail system to the Trump Administration's xenophobic, flagrant, and illegal efforts to hurt blue states by discouraging non-citizens and people of color from being counted," Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a statement.More Related News