[RideForever]

What this is saying is that if a state denies (black) citizens a vote in national elections, the number of representatives will be reduced in proportion to the whole state. It doesn’t directly address illegal aliens voting. It does provide for action if voting rights are withheld from citizens. It should not be much of a stretch to show application to illegal aliens counted in the Census versus citizens voting in elections. and so the need to define who our citizens are necessitates the question on the Census.

[ml/nj]

My only point is that it seems to require that under now unusual circumstances (unusual because of subsequent amendments) the number of Representatives a State is entitled to depends upon the number of male citizens. (The 19th Amendment which extended voting rights to women logically might remove the word male here but it doesn't. Male citizens also seems to include minors, both as ones denied a vote and as part of the total population.)

ML/NJ