Unfortunately, the federal statutes governing the census and apportionment provide no remedy to correct this problem. And it would be very difficult to devise an acceptable remedy this far after the fact.
Nothing can be done to correct those numbers until the next Census in ten years?! Funny, the IRS doesn't say that eight years after you under-counted your income.
The census is geared to providing a count of the population on one specific date, in this case April 1, 2020. A remedy that involved ordering the Census Bureau to conduct another actual recount in the 14 affected states—a complex, expensive undertaking—would provide numbers on a different date than the original census, whose population totals would still be in effect for the rest of the states. This would raise fundamental fairness issues, given the high mobility of our population.
"Fundamental issues of fairness"!!!!????? The fundamental issue of fairness is that the Census screwed up the count and expects us to live with the ramifications of their criminality mistake. Just like we're living with the results of the 2020 election.
Are we going to let them get away with this? If the Census knows enough about the numbers to say that they got them wrong, why can't they immediately change the numbers according to their best estimates? There's a lot at stake here - and it's not just the billions of dollars these states will get under fraudulent circumstances.
Perhaps even worse they released their report in March of this year. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2020-census-estimates-of-undercount-and-overcount.html
Knowing that nothing can apparently be legally done, why are they releasing this report? Because they want to rub our faces in it - to piss us off and smugly smirk over the reality that they'll face no accountability for their actions. We are living in a banana republic that makes third-world dictators look like America's founding fathers.
BTW - the article was written by Hans Spakovsky from the Heritage Foundation who was appointed to Trump's Election Integrity Commission by Pence and who did absolutely nothing to help us regarding elections.
>Unfortunately, the federal statutes governing the census and apportionment provide no remedy to correct this problem. And it would be very difficult to devise an acceptable remedy this far after the fact.
Nothing can be done to correct those numbers until the next Census in ten years?! Funny, the IRS doesn't say that eight years after you under-counted your income.
>The census is geared to providing a count of the population on one specific date, in this case April 1, 2020. A remedy that involved ordering the Census Bureau to conduct another actual recount in the 14 affected states—a complex, expensive undertaking—would provide numbers on a different date than the original census, whose population totals would still be in effect for the rest of the states. This would raise fundamental fairness issues, given the high mobility of our population.
"Fundamental issues of fairness"!!!!????? The fundamental issue of fairness is that the Census screwed up the count and expects us to live with the ramifications of their ~~criminality~~ mistake. Just like we're living with the results of the 2020 election.
Are we going to let them get away with this? If the Census knows enough about the numbers to say that they got them wrong, why can't they immediately change the numbers according to their best estimates? There's a lot at stake here - and it's not just the billions of dollars these states will get under fraudulent circumstances.
Perhaps even worse they released their report in March of this year. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2020-census-estimates-of-undercount-and-overcount.html
Knowing that nothing can apparently be legally done, why are they releasing this report? Because they want to rub our faces in it - to piss us off and smugly smirk over the reality that they'll face no accountability for their actions. We are living in a banana republic that makes third-world dictators look like America's founding fathers.
BTW - the article was written by Hans Spakovsky from the Heritage Foundation who was appointed to Trump's Election Integrity Commission by Pence and who did absolutely nothing to help us regarding elections.
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