Now trump and the DOJ want to screw up the Census count by adding questions about citizenship. This will discourage many people from answering the questions and will undercut trust in the system.
A scary line in the second paragraph states that trump wants to appoint a hack to head the bureau who doesn't believe in "competetive" elections. That's all we need, trump to help destroy our democratic electoral process.
The article is well worth a read. The link is at the bottom of this post.
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From the article:
“People are not going to come out to be counted because they’re going to be fearful the information would be used for negative purposes,” said Steve Jost, a former top bureau official during the 2010 census. “This line about enforcing voting rights is a new and scary twist.” He noted that since the first census in 1790, the goal has been to count everyone in the country, not just citizens.
There have been rumblings since the beginning of the year that the Trump administration wanted to add a citizenship question to the census. Adding to the concerns about the 2020 count, Politico reported last month that the administration may appoint to a top job at the bureau a Republican redistricting expert who wrote a book called “Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America.” The Census Bureau’s population count determines how the 435 U.S. House seats are distributed.
Trump Justice Department Pushes for Citizenship Question on Census, Alarming Experts — ProPublica
A scary line in the second paragraph states that trump wants to appoint a hack to head the bureau who doesn't believe in "competetive" elections. That's all we need, trump to help destroy our democratic electoral process.
The article is well worth a read. The link is at the bottom of this post.
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From the article:
“People are not going to come out to be counted because they’re going to be fearful the information would be used for negative purposes,” said Steve Jost, a former top bureau official during the 2010 census. “This line about enforcing voting rights is a new and scary twist.” He noted that since the first census in 1790, the goal has been to count everyone in the country, not just citizens.
There have been rumblings since the beginning of the year that the Trump administration wanted to add a citizenship question to the census. Adding to the concerns about the 2020 count, Politico reported last month that the administration may appoint to a top job at the bureau a Republican redistricting expert who wrote a book called “Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America.” The Census Bureau’s population count determines how the 435 U.S. House seats are distributed.
Trump Justice Department Pushes for Citizenship Question on Census, Alarming Experts — ProPublica