Posted on 01/17/2018 8:54:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats fear the Trump administrations 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 Departments General Counsel, Arthur E. Gary, This data is critical to the Departments 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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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.
Maxi has a challenger, a young Hispanic male who I have read is doing well. He actually lives in the District.
Non-citizens will not return the survey nor answer to canvassers. Numbers of population will go down.
Even though a lot of refugees from sh*thole countries were let in, I dont 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.
Yes eventually, California will transition to all Hispanic-rule. The days of white and black leftist rule are numbered.
YAY!
The People's Republic of Korea is West of Hawaii.
The People's Republic of Kalifornia is East of Hawaii.
One consideration is that less people, especially illegal aliens, would respond.
Hard to know if that would have much effect.
Effing census takers will lie about that.
Aren’t these anonymous?
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.
I am shocked!!
Counts both legal and illegals. Grrrrrr.
As well it should.
:< yeah, I guess that makes the citizenship question pretty much worthless.
Good.
Also California should be proportional in the electoral college as well. Republicans would get 10 to 15 EV’s form California each election
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.
Just one seat? Seems like they’d lose several if illegal aliens were removed from the equation.
So if California loses one, which state gains one?
My guess is Texas.
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.
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