Federal Government's Bungled Census Bad News for Red States. Here's Why

Hans von Spakovsky - Commentary : Sep 8, 2022
The Daily Signal

...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...

[DailySignal.com] If a politician from Florida decides to run for president in 2024, his (or her) home state will be short two votes in the Electoral College, and when the new session of the US House of Representatives convenes in January 2023, Florida will be missing two congressional seats to which it is entitled. (Image: Unsplash-Enayet Raheem)

Why? Because according to a post-2020 census survey, the US 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.

From the Daily Caller:

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... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the US Department of Justice. He is a member of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.