Posted on 09/04/2022 8:22:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When the citizens of the United States are counted every 10 years, those numbers are used for the next decade to determine each state’s federal monetary allowances, and also the number of electors needed in elections to represent the citizens of those states.
If any errors occur, those errors will affect these crucial matters for the next 10 years.
Our last national census was conducted in 2020.
The current 2020 Federally conducted U.S. census is predicted to have an unexpected impact on the upcoming midterms and next elections, due to errors that have been discovered.
Following up on the original census, the bureau in charge of those numbers instigated some subsequent interviews which yielded information on the errors.
The 2020 errors were discovered when the Census Bureau interviewed a large number of households across the country and compared the answers it got to the original census responses in 2020.
In addition to undercounting six states, the survey showed that the Bureau overcounted the population of Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah.
According to a post-2020 census survey, the U.S. Census Bureau significantly undercounted the population of Florida, as well as Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
At the same time, it overcounted the population of eight states, all but one of which is a blue state.
Funny coincidence – the Census made its largest overcount percentage error in President Joe Biden’s tiny home state of Delaware, which was overcounted by 5.45%.
One analyst is showing data concerning not only the census numbers but errors in the tabulation that have far-reaching consequences.
Daily Caller’s Spakovsky reports:
“There is no remedy in the federal statutes governing the census and apportionment to correct this problem. The scope of this problem was unusually high, and the Census Bureau has not offered any explanation as to how this happened.
By way of comparison, the survey the Census Bureau conducted after the 2010 census showed a statistically insignificant error rate of only 0.01%, which means the Bureau only missed counting 36,000 Americans. Quite a startling difference from the 2020 census.
But Rhode Island and Minnesota were also overcounted by 5.05% and 3.84%, respectively, which allowed each of them to keep a congressional seat to which they are not entitled.”
Spakovsky puts the problem in plain terms.
Minnesota, according to the original census report, would have lost a congressional seat during reapportionment if it had 26 fewer residents; the survey shows the state was overcounted by 216,971 individuals. Similarly, Rhode Island would have lost a seat if the Census Bureau had counted 19,000 fewer residents. It turns out that the state was overcounted by more than 55,000 individuals.
So both states will continue to have more representation in Congress, and more votes in the Electoral College, than they should.
The same is true of Colorado, which was awarded a new congressional seat that it should not have gotten.
Contrast that with Texas, which the Census Bureau survey says was undercounted by almost 2%. That represents over a half a million Texans, which means that, like Florida, Texas was cheated out of an additional member of Congress.
At that time, the Census Bureau said that Texas needed only 189,000 more people to gain another congressional seat. Turns out Texas already had them.
Arkansas had the largest percentage undercount at 5.04%, which represented over 150,000 residents of the state.
These errors by the Census Bureau also mean that the overcounted states will be receiving a larger share of the over $1.5 trillion in federal funds that are distributed to the states over the next decade based on their states’ populations.
And the undercounted states? They will be getting less funding than they should.”
Pondering how to address this, Daily Caller writes:
“Even if the states most affected could win a case in court, how would you come up with a remedy?
Ordering the Census Bureau to conduct another actual recount in the 14 affected states would be a complex, expensive undertaking that would provide numbers on a different date than the original census whose population totals from April 1, 2020, would still be in effect for the rest of the states, raising fundamental fairness issues given the high mobility of our population.
And ordering a new census of the entire nation also seems impractical.
But there is no question Congress needs to get to the bottom of what happened.
It must use its oversight authority to investigate the Census Bureau, its methods, procedures and operations to determine how and why these errors happened. We have to ensure that the necessary changes are made that won’t allow this to happen again.”
Of course ! what would we expect!
yup....and its all our fault, too
sarc
See Post #21. Did you find the same thing I mentioned?
Of course ! what would we expect!
yup....and its all our fault, too
sarc
“Errors”
My backside.
Beat me to it. Census is a Leftist jobs program, and they leverage it to the fullest corruptibility possible.
I have never met a conservative census worker. Ever.
Good gosh. Were you a “Census Worker”?
I have never met one like you.
And you! Two on one thread!
Never thought I would meet a conservative census worker, and now...two of them!
Schedule a new census for 2025 and do it right. An interim census has been done before, in 1885. Two years should be sufficient time for the census bureau to prepare an interim census.
The 2020 census was executed by the Trump administration. The census bureau is part if the commerce department which was led by Wilber Ross, a private equity investor appointed hy Trump. Ross is a Trump friend who helped Trump with financing in the 1990’s. He was not a McConnell pick.
Perhaps Wilber Ross and the census director should be called before a Congressional investigative hearing to determine why they failed.
I saw a flyer on Newbury Street in Boston back when the census was gearing up, and I recall it was $25+ an hour. (I recall $27, but could be wrong...)
Good to know. Another trick is writing an inefficient long string of code to process data when it could be done with just a few lines of code.
This “irregularities” are all part of the action plan to fundamentally change the U.S. Obama changed the federal government organization chart by bringing the census gathering function under the jurisdiction of the White House, having transferred the function from its historical place under the Commerce Dept.
Why Obama Wants Control of the Census.”
“https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123423384887066377
There were clearly plans to
weaponize the census to overrepresent those federally counted Obama’s handlers wanted overrepresented. There are many ways to manipulate the census process - from the questions asked and those not asked, to dropping questions that have been historically vital for historical study, economic infrastructure and economic and social history and family history. They also stopped asking key questions, so that that data would never get gathered or known or be provable or disprovable.
Ever notice that every “mistake” benefits the democrats?
Maybe its time for the red states to collect taxes for the federal govt., spend the federal “grant” money and federal mandates first then send whats left over to DC. Oh wait, there wouldn’t be anything left over.
Funny coincidence – the Census made its largest overcount percentage error in President Joe Biden’s tiny home state of Delaware, which was overcounted by 5.45%.
Although it would have some effect on the rest of the states, Delaware with a pop of 973,764, only has one Representative and will only have one for a very long time.
“Census is a Leftist jobs program, and they leverage it to the fullest corruptibility possible.”
For instance, U.S. librarians volunteer their libraries to be advertised, official places where people can register to vote and often places where people actually vote. Are new Americans and non-English-speaking Americans and other new voters unofficially influenced in choosing a political party and candidates?
““There is no remedy in the federal statutes governing the census and apportionment to correct this problem. The scope of this problem was unusually high, and the Census Bureau has not offered any explanation as to how this happened.”
Sure there is. It is a constitutionally mandated process. It cannot be done fraudulently or with reckless process lest it become void. This can be explored in a lawsuit and ruled on by the Supreme court.
Now you have.
Two.
In the hinterland, the decennial Census is the Square Deal.
We're pretty professional about it.
I was an "embed" that they didn't know about. :)
The data stuff that I mentioned above came from very high up. I've worked in IT centers, and rolling out a data set that I described would be a decision way, way above lots of pay grades.
The people in the first three or four levels that I dealt with were very apolitical. I actually knew a supervisor three or four levels above me that became a Republican staffer for a US House member after the 2010 Census.
Good man, that one.
Excellent point.
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