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Trump’s 2020 Census May Cost California Congressional Seat by Counting Citizens
Breitbart ^ | 17 Jan 2018 | CHRISS W. STREET

Posted on 01/17/2018 8:54:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats fear the Trump administration’s re-reinstatement of citizenship questions on the 2020 U.S. Census will cost California a Congressional seat and billions in funding.

The number of U.S. House of Representative seats was fixed by law in 1911 at 435. The “enumeration” requires at that each state have at least one Representative, and the other Representatives are allocated according to population as determined by the U.S. Census every ten years. Based on the 2010 Census data, California received the most, at 53.

But Politico reports that could change with the Department of Justice sending a letter on December 12 to the Census Bureau asking that the citizenship question eliminated in 2010 during the Obama administration be reinstated for the 2020 Census.

According to the Justice Department’s General Counsel, Arthur E. Gary, “This data is critical to the Department’s enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and its important protections against racial discrimination in voting.” He added, “To fully enforce those requirements, the Department needs a reliable calculation of the citizen voting-age population in localities where voting rights violations are alleged or suspected.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; incometaxes; maga; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The number of Electors in the Electoral College is based on a state’s combined total of senators and representatives.

So there’s that also.


21 posted on 01/17/2018 9:23:33 AM PST by glorgau
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To: pfflier

Maxi has a challenger, a young Hispanic male who I have read is doing well. He actually lives in the District.


22 posted on 01/17/2018 9:23:54 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: hanamizu

Non-citizens will not return the survey nor answer to canvassers. Numbers of population will go down.


23 posted on 01/17/2018 9:26:45 AM PST by Billyv ( Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Even though a lot of “refugees” from sh*thole countries were let in, I don’t see the numbers being big enough to alter an election.
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Fraud? A magnet for immigrants who can vote? Anchor babies? Population inflation to garner more representation, as well as Federal funding? A constituency for activists?

I put nothing past the donks, who think long term. There was method behind everything zer0 did. The imagined ends were to overwhelm native Americans everywhere in every way.


24 posted on 01/17/2018 9:27:22 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal

Yes eventually, California will transition to all Hispanic-rule. The days of white and black leftist rule are numbered.


25 posted on 01/17/2018 9:28:35 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Bill of Love? No thanks. Let's love America instead.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

YAY!


26 posted on 01/17/2018 9:29:03 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Jean2
There are two PRKs.

The People's Republic of Korea is West of Hawaii.

The People's Republic of Kalifornia is East of Hawaii.

27 posted on 01/17/2018 9:30:03 AM PST by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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To: hanamizu

One consideration is that less people, especially illegal aliens, would respond.

Hard to know if that would have much effect.


28 posted on 01/17/2018 9:31:02 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Effing census takers will lie about that.


29 posted on 01/17/2018 9:31:19 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Magnum44

Aren’t these anonymous?


30 posted on 01/17/2018 9:32:11 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: hanamizu

It HAS to be citizens! Otherwise, in your scenario, a hypothetical state could be 90% illegals and collect a high number of electoral votes based solely on illegals.


31 posted on 01/17/2018 9:34:33 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper

I am shocked!!

https://davidson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/davidson-introduces-amendment-apportion-representation-citizen

Counts both legal and illegals. Grrrrrr.


32 posted on 01/17/2018 9:39:02 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As well it should.


33 posted on 01/17/2018 9:42:37 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: SgtHooper

:< yeah, I guess that makes the citizenship question pretty much worthless.


34 posted on 01/17/2018 9:45:57 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good.

Also California should be proportional in the electoral college as well. Republicans would get 10 to 15 EV’s form California each election


35 posted on 01/17/2018 9:47:52 AM PST by Angels27
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To: SgtHooper

On further thought though, they should not have to be anonymous, as the only question on the census should be how many citizens live at this residence. The use of the census for other statistical tracking purposes or demographics is not constitutional. The census is supposed to count citizens, so making it a legal document requiring signature would be appropriate.


36 posted on 01/17/2018 9:50:21 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just one seat? Seems like they’d lose several if illegal aliens were removed from the equation.


37 posted on 01/17/2018 9:52:08 AM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So if California loses one, which state gains one?

My guess is Texas.


38 posted on 01/17/2018 9:53:35 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They already lie on Motor Voter Forms about being Citizens, so how will this change anything?

Without providing Proof of Citizenship or being accountable under the Law for committing Perjury, it is just an exercise in futility.


40 posted on 01/17/2018 9:59:02 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Shithole".)
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