R Cheater will head 2020 Census...good luck to us....

[Ms. Toad]

5. The census counts people, pure and simple.

Yes, it should be headed by a non-partisan expert. And yes, Republicans would be motivated to undercount people in urban areas (especially poor and/or homeless people) to give more seats in Congress to those who are more likely to think like them.

That said, it is the state legislatures that create gerrymandering - not the census. If anything, those determined to gerrymander need very precise information about where the folks live who "need" to be segregated into a geographical salamander. If gerrymandering is built on faulty information, it will be far less effective.