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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCensus: DOJ argues the Constitution requires a count but not that it must be accurate.
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C_U_L8R
(44,891 posts)These magats have all the argument skills of a second grader
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)if you don't care whether the count is accurate? What a fucking stupid argument.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)Volaris
(10,260 posts)and then NOT give most of them their job back. What fucking judge is going to tolerate this nonsense as actual argument in their courtroom?!
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(3,020 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)Volaris
(10,260 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Nevilledog
(50,660 posts)Faux pas
(14,582 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Chainfire
(17,305 posts)half-assed.
struggle4progress
(118,034 posts)according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by .. the whole Number of free Persons ..."
14th amendment: "... Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state ..."
Census Bureau webpage: "... The plan was to count every person living in the newly created United States of America, and to use that count to determine representation in the Congress ..." https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/census-constitution.html
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)I worked for the census in 1980 we used a variety of things at hand from public records, tax records, assessment records, neighbors, landlords, building supt. the mailmen were always the best, a calling card, the public library usually have city & town directories then. You could even get a voter list from the board of elections.
It came down to verifying the data collected. The knowns and hitting the unknowns. I know Covid-19 upended things in someplaces more than others but still having a war room and a game plan is essential.
Today there is the internet
TheBlackAdder
(28,072 posts).
It's the rounding that'll get us every time.
Oh, this county only has 495,000 residents. Were rounding to the nearest 1 Million, so there are 0 residents.
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Takket
(21,424 posts)You said we have to put in seat belts, but not that they have to connect to anything
Hi, I work for the zoo. you said we had to feed the animals but you never said it had to be food that wasn't poisonous.
The requirement to "do something" as mandated by law intrinsically implies that you are required to do it to a reasonable level of accuracy and quality. otherwise there is no sense having the requirement.
Mr Gerrity
(74 posts)The 1870 census had serious problems with under-counting in the south as well as the two largest cities in the northeast at the time, New York and Philadelphia, as well as Indianapolis . President Grant ordered a second enumeration in those cities that occurred in Jan of 1871.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)Oh, goodie, now trumps accountants are his lawyers.
It's a twofer!!!