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Census Bureau To End All Counting Efforts On Sept. 30 : NPR
The census is constitutionally required and it needs to be accurate. Many things can be affected by the census results that include federal funding and seats in Congress. But ever so quietly, the census is being brought to a halt before accurate counting can occur. Why?
It appears that if they can monkey with the census enough, they can swing congressional maps and seats to their favor. I don't think that the census should be some politicized tool for a party to game the system. If this is true, it goes up there with Trump's toadie appointment to the USPS to undercut the USPS before the election and affect mail-in ballots.
The U.S. Census Bureau is ending all counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month sooner than previously announced, the bureau's director confirmed Monday in a statement. That includes critical door-knocking efforts and collecting responses online, over the phone and by mail.
The census is constitutionally required and it needs to be accurate. Many things can be affected by the census results that include federal funding and seats in Congress. But ever so quietly, the census is being brought to a halt before accurate counting can occur. Why?
The bureau also asked Congress to push back by four months the legal deadline of Dec. 31 for reporting the latest state population counts to the president. Delaying that deadline would allow the bureau to keep counting through Oct. 31 to "ensure the completeness and accuracy of the 2020 Census," Dillingham and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement released in April.
Democrats in Congress and many census advocates have become increasingly concerned that the White House is pressuring the bureau to stop counting soon in order to benefit Republicans when House seats are reapportioned and voting districts are redrawn.
It appears that if they can monkey with the census enough, they can swing congressional maps and seats to their favor. I don't think that the census should be some politicized tool for a party to game the system. If this is true, it goes up there with Trump's toadie appointment to the USPS to undercut the USPS before the election and affect mail-in ballots.