Republicans Signal They're Willing To Cut Census Counting Short

[Nevilledog]

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/895744449/republicans-signal-theyre-willing-to-cut-short-census-counting

Republicans in Congress are signaling that the Census Bureau cannot take the extra time it has said it needs to count every person living in the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic — even if that risks leaving some residents out of the 2020 census.

Rushing to deliver new state-population counts to the president by Dec. 31, and more detailed data to the states by March 31, 2021, as required by current federal law, could risk severe inaccuracies in the once-a-decade count, especially among people of color, immigrants, rural residents and other historically undercounted groups.

With 95 days until the Census Bureau plans to stop tallying the country's residents at the end of October, roughly 4 out of 10 households nationwide have yet to be included in the constitutionally mandated count that is used to redistribute congressional seats, Electoral College votes and federal funding among the states.

Democrats in both the Senate and the House of Representatives have introduced legislation, including the House Democrats' latest coronavirus relief bill, that would grant four-month extensions to the legal deadlines in response to requests in April by the Census Bureau and the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau.

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[2naSalit]

1. Census can be run again next year using the 2020

Census Day date if Congress acts to allow for a variance in the deadlines for this particular census. It can be done, I wouldn't waste too much time fretting over it. Just one more mess to clean up after the shitstain is removed.

[Imperialism Inc.]

2. I'm working for the Census here in Ohio.

Things are definitely behind schedule because of the two month shut-down, but I know that at least in the two areas our office covers we have the ~ 4000-5000 people hired to do the canvasing of people who didn't fill it our online. Called NRFU - Non-Response follow up. They originally planned for the effort to take about 8 weeks and that's still what we are shooting for. I of course have no idea how things are going in other areas.