States under pressure to redraw congressional and legislature districts but facing a delay in the release of the needed data may be able to get the numbers in an outdated format in August. That would be more than a month earlier than the planned date for their official release. Census Bureau official Al Fontenot told an advisory committee on Thursday that the redistricting data will be available in mid- to late August. But the data will be in an older data format that may be difficult for some states to work with since they require extra steps to be taken to make them usable.
