Census bureau admits to overcounting blue states and undercounting red states in 2020

a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

The mis-apportionment of 3 congressional seats is hardly a trivial matter.

It will be interesting to see what DeSantis has to say about this.

originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Klassified

Another week, another institution demonstrates its very expensive inteptitude.

Brick by brick it seems.....

If it is indeed ineptitude.

originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: AndyFromMichigan

The mis-apportionment of 3 congressional seats is hardly a trivial matter.

It will be interesting to see what DeSantis has to say about this.

I certainly don't expect him to be shy about speaking his mind over this.

Also, I dare say that given the major political ramifications, and the fact that the errors all appear to have benefitted blue states at the expense of red states or swing states, that this should be considered a prima fascia case of fraud, with no benefit of the doubt to be given.

a reply to: Klassified

the 2020 error rate was 0.24%, while its indeed higher its still a very low error rate.

originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
Democrats are hateful and greedy people with no morals, so I’m not surprised. Eventually we will take a lot more than funding from these tyrants.

You do realize, don't you, that the 2020 Census was actually conducted under Trump's administration? If there are any problems with the results, the buck is supposed to stop with the President.

"Former President Donald Trump's administration alarmed career civil servants at the Census Bureau by not only ending the 2020 national head count early, but also pressuring them to alter plans for protecting people's privacy and producing accurate data, a newly released email shows.

Trump's political appointees at the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, demonstrated an "unusually" high level of "engagement in technical matters, which is unprecedented relative to the previous censuses," according to a September 2020 email that Ron Jarmin — the bureau's deputy director — sent to two other top civil servants."

From:

www.npr.org...

a reply to: VierEyes

Keep telling yourself your powerless. You are a human being with amazing skills and abilities. Define yourself never let others define you. You aren't powerless unless you believe it to be true.
We lost sight of the ball a long long time ago. We have this amazing concept of freedom and self governance. However there is a great responsibility which goes hand and hand with this concept. One responsibility we have in this concept is holding those we elect accountable. We have not done that in so long accountability is now passe'.
Benjamin Franklin said it, we have a republic if we can keep it.
We have had generations of Americans not doing their due diligence in keeping our republic. We reap what we sow. However the levers and mechanics are still in place though not as readily accessable as in the past. Therefore we are not powerless. We need to consolidate against corruption, government overreach. We need to let those we allow and give consent to govern that the platform we have given them can be removed at any time. Never let them feel secure in their role. We need to demand term limits, reduce political campaign spending, remove those who won't abide by the Constitution, and we as an electorate need to seriously grow up and take our role in this republic with much more real responsibility.
It is the lack of these things which has backed us into this proverbially corner.
You and I are not powerless unless we choose to be.

a reply to: JinMI

pretty sure that has nothing to do with what i said, obviously there's Democrats but you know as well as i do that blue states are under absolute controlof of Democrats and red states are under absolute control of Republicans, the only cheating going on in red states is by Republicans and vice versa or we'd all hear about it nonstop.

a reply to: Klassified

Hanlon's Razor.

However too many coincidences doesn't bode well.

a reply to: Klassified

So yet another government agency weaponized by the evil left.

My shocked face.

originally posted by: Klassified

In a shocking report, the U.S. Census Bureau recently admitted that it overcounted the populations of eight states and undercounted the populations of six states in the 2020 census.
All but one of the states overcounted is a blue state, and all but one of the undercounted states is red.

Those costly errors will distort congressional representation and the Electoral College. It means that when the Census Bureau reapportioned the House of Representatives, Florida was cheated out of two additional seats it should have gotten; Texas missed out on another seat; Minnesota and Rhode Island each kept a representative they shouldn’t have, and Colorado was awarded a new member of the House it didn’t deserve.

Census errors will distort elections, funding for next decade

This may not seem like a big deal on the surface, but as the article goes on to explain, these "errors" could cost undercounted states into the billions, while overcounted states will receive more than their share.

Of course the bureau has given no clue as to how this happened, and certainly no offer to fix it.

Is this the same?

No, the Census Bureau didn’t confirm a problem with the 2020 election results

The Census Bureau’s population survey data shows that the number of people who reported that they voted in the 2020 election is less than the number of ballots that were cast for president.

But that difference doesn’t account for the more than 36 million people who didn’t report whether they voted or not. ​

www.politifact.com...

The Washington Times is an American conservative daily newspaper.

Guess you can read both and decide who's factual.

a reply to: Annee

🤣🤣🤣😳😳twisty misty

I am thinking that this is not a coincidence. There is some nefarious activity going on because random would not be so lop sided and favor one party so much.

a reply to: Annee
Politifact has been sued and lost for outright lying, so I take anything they say with cynicism. Nevertheless, I will check it out.

originally posted by: Klassified

originally posted by: namehere
the solution is simple if this bothers you so much, join the Democrats attempts to replace the electoral college, that way it doesn't matter how much the states are over or under counted. but really census counts are estimates and always have been.

The Census Bureau has not explained how it got the 2020 census so wrong. This is particularly troublesome because the bureau reported an error rate of 0.01% in the 2010 census — an overcount of only 36,000 people, a statistically insignificant mistake.

Or the dems could stack the supreme court too, but that's just a conspiracy theory.....Oh wait.

FYI: 80% of the Federal Government Managers are DEMOCRATS.

Democrats will cross the line to take illegal or immoral actions in a heartbeat, if it will help them get what they want.

The "little voice" of conscience is barely more than a whisper inside their heads.

originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: Annee
Politifact has been sued and lost for outright lying, so I take anything they say with cynicism. Nevertheless, I will check it out.

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit involving PolitiFact

Do you think I haven't read up on Politifact as I do other sites?

Am I supposed to just accept Right Wing Conservative sites?

There is so much unnecessary, created, drama on Right Wing sites -- they really can't be believed.

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Anyway -- back to Census

a reply to: 1947boomer

Yes. There was also a ruling against him on how it should be done. It went all the way to the Supreme Court...and he lost.

The issue was about the citizenship question which is on one form, but not another.

originally posted by: Annee

originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: Annee
Politifact has been sued and lost for outright lying, so I take anything they say with cynicism. Nevertheless, I will check it out.

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit involving PolitiFact

Do you think I haven't read up on Politifact as I do other sites?

Am I supposed to just accept Right Wing Conservative sites?

There is so much unnecessary, created, drama on Right Wing sites -- they really can't be believed.

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Anyway -- back to Census

1. I wouldn't know.
2. I certainly hope not.
3. And there's none of that on left wing sites. None at all.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Klassified

So yet another government agency weaponized by the evil left.

My shocked face.

how evil can they get?

not saying this is as bad as killing babies but really, do they have no floor?

a reply to: Annee

But WHATABOUT _____________ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You've got the Seabiscuit Syndrome too !!!