GOP Needs to Demand Answers for Big Mistake That Is Likely to Hurt Them in Midterms – Opinion

We’ve seen the politicization of the FBI and we’ve seen how that can create a two-tier system of justice. We’ve seen how it can even adversely impact the former president of the United States. This latest leak suggests even that the FBI conducted the raid on Russia to obtain documents related to Russia probe.

But that’s not the only place where there may be issues. There’s another arena that’s going to have a big bad impact on Republicans in elections. It hasn’t been getting a lot of attention — but it has to, if we’re going to rectify the problem.

Recent revelations by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the Bureau had incorrectly counted population in eight of its states, and the census of the six other states it was estimating for 2020.

Only one state is not overcounted, and every other one is a red state.

These errors can distort the congressional representation as well as the Electoral College. It means that when the Census Bureau reapportioned the House of Representatives, Florida was cheated out of two additional seats it should have gotten; Texas missed out on another seat; Minnesota and Rhode Island each kept a representative they shouldn’t have; and Colorado was awarded a new member of the House it didn’t deserve.

It meant that the federal government cut off representatives of the red states, not to mention federal funding in a significant way that would negatively impact elections. It’s amazing! Especially when they didn’t happen in the prior census? The state with the largest overcount was guessed by three people.

The bureau then interviews large numbers of households in the country after each census. Next, it compares their answers to the original census results. According to the 2020 survey, Delaware, Hawaii and Massachusetts were overcounted by the bureau. The largest mistake was in President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, which was overcounted by 5.45%.

Arkansas, Florida (Florida), Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas are the only states where populations were not counted correctly. Arkansas had the highest undercount with an error of 5.04% in its population.

According to the original census, Florida required 171,500 additional residents in order to win another congressional seat. However, the survey revealed that Florida’s population was actually lower than expected by nearly three-quarters million. According to the bureau, Texas only needed 189,000 additional people in order to win another congressional seat. According to the survey, Texas had 560 319 less residents than it needed in order to gain another congressional seat.

Minnesota, as per the original census, would have been deprived of a congressional seat during reapportionment had it 26 more residents. However, the survey indicates that Minnesota was undercounted by 217,971 persons. Rhode Island, on the other hand, would have been deprived of a seat had it 19,000 less residents than what was reported by Census Bureau. As it turns out, the state was undercounted with more than 55,000 residents.

It is not only a bad decision that negatively impacts the midterm elections, but also all federal funding and election allocations for the next 10 years. Their one responsibility was to make sure they didn’t mess up. Congress needs to rake people over the coals for this so someone answers up as to how this happened, so they make sure it doesn’t happen again and appropriate action is taken. Unfortunately, given how we’ve seen the Democrat operatives seem to infiltrate areas that are supposed to be objective, I no longer trust that politics aren’t influencing these things.

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