A Presidential election has just occurred and another will occur in four years. As some of us know the electoral college and the relative apportionment of Congressional seats is dependent on the census which is taken every ten years.
From Daybreak Insider:
“Oversight Committee Conducts Hearing Into Census Bureau for Refusing to Ask if Residents are U.S. Citizens”
Committee Chairman Rep James Comer opened the meeting by saying, “The Census Bureau’s Post-Enumeration Survey—which measures Census count accuracy—revealed significant errors in 14 states. These errors predominantly benefited Democratic-leaning states in the allocation of congressional seats and electoral college votes.
“In contrast to the 2020 census, no states were found to have had such errors in the 2010 census.”
For some inexplicable reason while the census asks a list of mundane questions, it does not ask whether or not individuals are US citizens.
From X:
Rep. Jim Jordan GOES OFF on the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau for not including a citizenship status question.
“Are you getting welfare?
“Do you work for the government?
“Do you have a mental illness?
“Are you deaf?
“Are you blind?
“What’s your race?
“What’s your sex?
“You can ask all those questions, but the one question that might, let’s just say might, have an impact on how we apportion congressional seats (Citizenship Status), we can’t ask that one.
“Oh, that seems stupid.”
Yes, it certainly is stupid, and should be changed. Hopefully a Republican congress will change this.
12/7/24