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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the Biden administration determines that census count was botched
Intentionally or due to incompetence..
Can Congress authorize to ammend/fix it
DavidDvorkin
(19,504 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to earlier findings.
The Census itself is an estimate and they use sampling and other means to adjust, verify data. I think the results are due during next term, anyway.
unblock
(52,457 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Here's Brookings on 2000 Census:
"The Census Bureau will produce two sets of numbers for 2000: an unadjusted set based on the traditional headcount, and an adjusted set based on a huge post-census sample survey. In January 1999, the Supreme Court ruled that adjusted numbers may not be used for apportioning Congress. But they may still be used for redistricting, federal grant allocations, and other purposes. And, as in 1990, the very existence of two sets of census numbers will fuel debate.
"Undercounting minority groups has symbolic significance, especially given that the U.S. Constitution originally required each slave to be counted as only three-fifths of a person. But the fiscal and political stakes in this battle have been grossly exaggerated by all parties. And while the minority undercount might in fact be getting worse, the debate over its significance has been highly distorted, even misleading."
https://www.brookings.edu/research/counting-on-the-census/
unblock
(52,457 posts)So sensible adjustments are fine for other uses.
Wounded Bear
(58,767 posts)in Article 1, Section 2. It doesn't say anything about a do-over, so if Congress voted on one, it would probably be challenged by the Repubs, who would hate if there was an accurate count.
I could see it.
2naSalit
(86,900 posts)It requires the Congress to order a recount but it can be done next spring using the original 4/1/20 Census day date. It will just require that Congress order it and be signed off by the pres.