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No Census Reform, No Election Integrity

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Posted By: gaboy, 4/21/2025 1:52:43 AM

When the House passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on April 10 it took a good first step toward the restoration of election integrity, assuming the Senate also passes it and President Trump signs it into law before the 2026 midterms. Nonetheless, until Congress imposes major reforms on the U.S. Census Bureau and its hopelessly Byzantine methods of gathering data for the constitutionally mandated census, it can’t be relied upon to produce accurate results. In the era of Big Data this bureaucracy’s aging systems and institutional inertia all but guarantee the kind of inefficiency and corruption that DOGE

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 4/21/2025 7:05:52 AM (No. 1936642)
The census has been perverted well beyond the original requirement to count the population every ten years. Fix that first.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 4/21/2025 7:16:10 AM (No. 1936652)
I am torn on the whole thing. I want to obey the Constitution, which requires an enumeration every ten years. I've even found the old records from the early 1900's useful in my family research. Still, a lot of the questions they ask are none of their business. I became a census resister when I realized that despite their assurances, every bit of information they have will be abused. I also didnt like their big selling point was my share of the federal money. I'm not looking for welfare! Put it back in the treasury! Representation? We dont have any now. What will giving us more of nothing do? Once they sent a big bruiser to try to intimidate the information out of me with his size and threats of prosecution. He got very little and I'm not in jail.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bighambone 4/21/2025 9:37:32 AM (No. 1936766)
It’s evident that only people who are US citizens and permanent resident aliens, in possession of so-called “Real IDs” should be counted in the US Census for congressional redistricting purposes. That’s just common sense.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: dwa 4/21/2025 11:34:44 AM (No. 1936926)
What is so irritating is that they know the 2020 census was wrong but we are told that nothing can be done about it. So for 10 years we have liberal states getting more money and representation than they should while conservative states get less. Try that in a public company and see what happens. I'm sure than no one was held responsible for the errors and were instead probably promoted and got bonuses. I'm also sure that if the census just counted people instead of asking all those irrelevant questions the number of census employees could be significantly reduced.
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