Rios: If elected, Biden should set up Presidential Commission on 2020 Census Undercount

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The decennial census is the basis upon which this country allocates its two most important resources: political power and federal funds.

Therefore, an accurate census count is basic to the ideals of democracy.

Every decennial census result in an undercount; typically, minorities and the poor have the highest undercount; this is coupled with a smaller but significant overcount of Whites.

There have been 24 censuses conducted since the beginning of the Republic in 1776. The US Census is conducted between April and October of the beginning of the decade – 1990, 2000, 2010, etc.

This is the first decade, 2020, in which the decennial census was conducted during a pandemic. The Census Bureau has warned that the pandemic has presented a set of problems that will increase the undercount. Experts predict an eight percent to ten undercount resulting in gross injustice in the distribution of federal resources to the disadvantage of minority voters.

Read more: https://riograndeguardian.com/rios-if-elected-biden-should-set-up-presidential-commission-on-2020-census-undercount/

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1. 'The Census Bureau has warned that the pandemic has presented a set of problems

that will increase the undercount. Experts predict an eight percent to ten undercount resulting in gross injustice in the distribution of federal resources to the disadvantage of minority voters.

To make matters worse, President Trump has continually demagogued immigrants causing noncitizens to be redescent about filling out the census form.

Moreover, the Trump administration attempted to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census Form even though the Census Bureau Scientist warned that a citizenship question would exacerbate the undercount. Fortunately, we successfully struck the citizenship

question from the 2020 US Census Form with a 5-4 victory in the U.S. Supreme Court.'