Next U.S. census will have new boxes for 'Middle Eastern or North African,' 'Latino'
On the next U.S. census and future federal government forms, the list of checkboxes for a person's race and ethnicity is officially getting longer.
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An appeals court says 'undated' Pennsylvania ballots don't count
A federal appeals panel has set up a potential U.S. Supreme Court battle about Pennsylvania's mail-in ballots that could play a role in determining who wins this year's presidential election and other races in the key swing state.
Biden officials keep states waiting on expanding Medicaid voter registration
Officials in several states are waiting for the Biden administration to greenlight proposals that advocates say could enable hundreds of thousands of lower-income U.S. citizens and citizens with disabilities to vote.
The Census Bureau is dropping a controversial proposal to change disability statistics
The U.S. Census Bureau is no longer moving forward with a controversial proposal that could have shrunk a key estimated rate of disability in the United States by about 40%, the bureau's director said Tuesday in a blog post.
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