It seems that the 2020 census deliberately mis-apportioned state populations, which in turn led to mis-allocation of electoral seats per state. Nice when you can fix the results before the election even begins!
Redistricting is a sum of blocks. Distort the blocks, and you distort the districts, the legislatures, and the House. This practice is not merely bad policy; it is plainly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court’s opinion in Department of Commerce v. House of Representatives (1999) made clear that statistical sampling for apportionment is illegal on statutory grounds. Abowd’s algorithmic manipulation is statistical sampling by another name, an unlawful substitution of estimated data for an actual enumeration required by the Constitution.
The proof arrived in March and May of 2022 when the Bureau’s own quality checks exposed a lopsided pattern. Fourteen states had statistically significant coverage errors, eight with overcounts and six with undercounts. The tilt was unmistakable. Democratic-leaning states were widely overcounted. Republican-leaning states were widely undercounted. Florida’s undercount was roughly three quarters of a million people. Texas’s undercount was on the order of a half million. Minnesota and Rhode Island kept seats they would have lost under an accurate count. Colorado gained a seat it did not deserve. Florida and Texas each missed multiple seats they should have gained. Analysts estimate the net effect was a shift of nine House seats away from Republican-leaning states and toward Democratic-leaning states. The Electoral College moved with them. More than $86 billion in federal formula funds followed.
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The stakes are immense. The Census Bureau’s operations across a decade cost taxpayers on the order of $25 billion. Citizens paid for accurate data and received a noisy approximation that tilted representation and shifted money. Republican states are projected to lose almost $90 billion in federal funds across the decade as a result of the miscounts. Democratic states are projected to gain $57 billion. This is not a rounding error. It is a reweighting of national political power and public finance by mathematical fiat.
There's much more at the link. It provides graphic evidence of what I can only presume is Deep State manipulation of our electoral machinery, to give their approved candidates and causes a built-in advantage even before a single vote is cast. That situation still exists, and will govern national elections for the next half-decade or more until a new census can re-calculate our population and fairly apportion its distribution. It means President Trump is fighting a built-in, institutionalized disadvantage in every election he and his party fight.
Food for thought. Remember to get out and vote today!
Peter
6 comments:
I get all the admonishment and encouragement, rah rah rah, get out and vote, go team.
IF WE DON'T HANG THESE TRAITORS THEY WILL ONLY DO IT AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN, UNTIL THEY WIN, OR ARE HANGED!
My wife and I early voted in Texas. We didn't want to stand in line. The 17 amendments were extremely difficult to understand what we were voting for - against.
Do yourselves a favor and look up what the amendments each really mean BEFORE you vote. Too many 'vote for prohibiting legislation which would blah blah blah' for me. I guess I'm getting dumber in my old age.
This result was from deliberate intent as Obama moved the census bureau under the White House. Having done that, I have no doubt he directed the results you are detailing. Yet another method by which 2020 elections (plural) were stolen.
Steve
The news says Gavin Newscum is pushing a bill that would turn a handful of districts in northern Cali even more blue than this sort of fraud has done already. How much of that goes on?
Hard to see how this doesn't count as treason.
The need for a census bureau every tens years would be moot if we just used an existing mechanism for counting people and their primary residences: the annual tax return. As long as we're at this, this should also be the accounting for voters. Get all that data about people, their dependents, their SSN/TINs, their physical address and reprocess it into several outputs: Citizens plus resident/visiting aliens distribution across the states, stripped of any PII, for districting purposes; List of names of citizens over 17 according to federal districts and state districts, for validating voter rolls; list of individuals needed to enroll in Selective Service; list of individuals to be enrolled in Social Security; calculation of median taxable income by state and district, to be used as a method for determining Representative and Senator pay so they stop giving themselves raises, and instead their pay is based on a formula using national, their state and their district reported taxable income, with government welfare counting as a negative number for that purpose.
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