Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)
@npr.org correspondent reporting on how elections, the census and the U.S. Postal Service work • signal: hansi.01 • email: hwang@npr.org • newsletter: hansilowang.com/stay-in-touch
- NEW: In a bipartisan vote, the House Oversight Committee advanced a bill by @repkweisimfume.bsky.social calling for domestic mail-in ballot envelopes to include a standardized barcode that would allow voters to track ballots, starting with this year's federal election mfume.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
- BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year’s midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas’ new map, which could help Republicans win five more U.S. House seats www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year’s #2030Census field test and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with postal workers, raising concerns about the Census Bureau’s ability to produce a reliable national head count
- BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register
- NEW: The bipartisan Congressional Postal Service Caucus, led by Reps. @budzinski.house.gov, @repchrispappas.bsky.social and Jack Bergman, call for the U.S. Postal Service to reverse changes to mail processing that have led to some mail not getting postmarked the same day it's sent
- NEW: Missouri files the latest lawsuit seeking to exclude people living in the states with no legal status and those with visas in #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state.” The GOP-led state also calls for a "redo" of the 2020 census
