Republicans suspect political interference in census numbers

 Washington Examiner:

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Republicans, meanwhile, were disappointed that Texas only picked up two House seats due to rapid population growth and that Florida only added one. State governments in both are controlled by Republicans, and each expected to pick up an additional House seat, important elements in the party's bid for winning a majority in the chamber in the 2022 midterm elections.

House Republicans on the Oversight Committee questioned Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in a recent letter, asking why “apportionment population results released by the Census Bureau are strikingly different from the population evaluation estimates released just months ago on December 22, 2020.”

“Several liberal states with sanctuary policies may have lost more congressional seats if illegal immigrants had not been included in the apportionment base," the Republican lawmakers wrote. "This trend calls into question whether there was any political interference with the apportionment results released by the Census Bureau.”
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States are also concerned about the Census Bureau’s methodology with its number count. A lawsuit filed by the state of Alabama, with the backing of 16 states, one month ago, challenges the Census Bureau’s current counting method known as “differential privacy.”

The lawsuit asks whether the process upholds federal legal requirements of keeping personal information private for people who participated in the 2020 census while still making sure the numbers are accurate to redraw the congressional and legislative districts.

The states supporting Alabama's lawsuit are Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Maine and New Mexico are the only states in the group with Democratic attorneys general.

“Because differential privacy creates false information — by design — it prevents the states from accessing municipal-level information crucial to performing this essential government functions," the 16 states said. “And the distorting impact of differential privacy will likely fall hardest on some of the most vulnerable populations—rural areas and minority racial groups."
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The Biden is yet to explain the difference in the final count.  They probably do not have a good explanation.  It should also be noted that one of the reasons Biden opened the borders is to cook the books on future counts by including more illegal aliens.  Democrats H.R. 1 legislation would do away with voter ID making it easier for illegals to vote too. 

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