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[RickFromMN]

12. What if the census count reflected the number of registered voters?

What if the census count went something like this:

1) if you are under the voting age, you get counted.

2) If you are at the age where you can vote, you only get counted if you are a registered voter?


There is precedent. Go back to when the Constitution was written in 1787.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

From the above URL:
"Delegates opposed to slavery generally wished to count only the free inhabitants of each state. Delegates supportive of slavery, on the other hand, generally wanted to count slaves in their actual numbers. Since slaves could not vote, slaveholders would thus have the benefit of increased representation in the House and the Electoral College. The final compromise of counting "all other persons" as only three-fifths of their actual numbers reduced the power of the slave states relative to the original southern proposals, but increased it over the northern position."