{"id":19686,"date":"2019-06-17T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/?post_type=resource&p=19686"},"modified":"2024-06-12T12:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T16:51:04","slug":"ang-mga-file-ng-hofeller","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/resources\/the-hofeller-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Ang mga Hofeller Files"},"template":"","class_list":["post-19686","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","resource_type-report"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Evidence obtained by Common Cause confirms how political operatives spent years plotting to rig our democracy with a Census citizenship question. GOP\u2019s chief gerrymandering mastermind Thomas Hofeller laid out a plan to add the citizenship question to the Census. The purpose? Manipulating our Census and redistricting process to be, in Hofeller\u2019s words, \u201cadvantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.\"","featured_image":"","resource_type":150,"authors":"","related_issues":[138,2066],"related_work":[188,174,1885],"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":true,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":[{"file_download":true,"link":null,"file":4327},{"file_download":true,"link":null,"file":4328},{"file_download":true,"link":null,"file":4352},{"file_download":true,"link":null,"file":4329},{"file_download":true,"link":null,"file":4015},{"file_download":true,"link":null,"file":4430}]}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Common Cause has obtained evidence confirming how political operatives have spent years plotting to rig our democracy with a Census citizenship question.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFirst, the New York Times<\/a> publicized this shocking study<\/a>, written by the GOP\u2019s chief gerrymandering mastermind Thomas Hofeller, that laid out a plan to add the citizenship question to the Census. The purpose? Manipulating our Census and redistricting process to be, in Hofeller's words, \u201cadvantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites.\u201d\r\n\r\nThen we found evidence<\/a> that Hofeller communicated with a top Census official about citizenship when the department was preparing to re-engineer the 2020 census.\r\n\r\nTogether, the documents undermined the Trump Administration's explanation for why it wanted to add the citizenship question to the 2020 census. In July, the administration abandoned its attempt to add the question, after being blocked by the Supreme Court.\r\n\r\nNow the Hofeller files could reveal the extent of the gerrymandering schemes that Hofeller was involved in across the country.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn early September, a Wake County Superior Court ruling<\/a> in Common Cause v. Lewis<\/a><\/em> stated the Hofeller files<\/a> provided direct evidence of his interest in maximizing Republicans\u2019 advantage in the 2017 legislative maps in North Carolina. The three-judge panel gave the state legislature two weeks to redraw new maps and mandated a fully transparent process.\r\n\r\nOn November 4, the court lifted a confidentiality designation<\/a> on more than 100,000 of the Hofeller files pertaining to Arizona, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Nassau County in New York, and <\/span>Nueces<\/span> County and <\/span>Galveston <\/span>in Texas. The court gave Hofeller\u2019s former company, Geographic Strategies, more time to substantiate a claim on other files that it has said are proprietary.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWe know from our national redistricting advocacy that Hofeller orchestrated gerrymandering in multiple states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. We believe that there is additional evidence that needs to come forward about the partisan motives and vote-stealing conducted in other states.<\/strong>\r\n

What happened...<\/h2>\r\nBack in 2015, a Republican operative named Thomas Hofeller -- once called \u201cthe Michelangelo of the modern gerrymander\u201d -- was hired by a Republican megadonor to conduct a study<\/a>: what if the rules of redistricting were changed to draw legislative districts based on the number of voting citizens living in them, not the total number of people living in a state?\r\n\r\nHofeller recognized this change would be a \u201cradical departure from the federal \u2018one person, one vote\u2019 rule presently used in the United State[s].\u201d\r\n\r\nHofeller even recognized that it would be hard to convince the Supreme Court to mandate this change, unless... they could figure out how to add a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 Census.\r\n\r\nThen, in the next round of redistricting, the plan was for Republicans to use that citizenship data to supercharge their partisan gerrymandering strategy: excising a large number of Americans out of redistricting altogether, and packing the remaining Democrats and voters of color into as few districts as possible.\r\n

What's next...<\/h2>\r\nHofeller\u2019s documents are a \u201csmoking gun\u201d -- exposing exactly how he and his fellow operatives worked to undermine the integrity of our Census, manipulate redistricting, and rig the elections for partisan advantage.\r\n\r\nNow that their plan has been revealed, it\u2019s important for all of us \u2013 the courts, leaders, and the people \u2013 to stand up for a democracy that includes every American voice."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_resources","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_resources":{"heading":"Related Resources","button_text":"See all Related Resources","manually_curate":false,"resource":null}}]},"yoast_head":"\nThe Hofeller Files - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mapagkukunan-2\/ang-mga-file-ng-hofeller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hofeller Files\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/mapagkukunan-2\/ang-mga-file-ng-hofeller\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-12T16:51:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/resources\/the-hofeller-files\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/resources\/the-hofeller-files\/\",\"name\":\"The Hofeller Files - 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