Common, eeyore…
Might be a tad ahead of yourself admitting defeat on the next election before this one has even been settled.
Texts Show That Census Supervisor In Alabama Told Counters To Use Fake Answers | Talking Points Memo
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Oh, quite the contrary, the majority gets it.
That’s why they found use of statistical sampling to be impermissible, even if it does improve accuracy. The accuracy was the problem, the “originalism” was how it was solved.
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BOOM - and it can be done without a constitutional amendment .
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I was an enumerator. Covid postponement jacked up this census as much as anything. Having to count who was where on April 1 in August wasn’t easy. The methodology was cumbersome, but I did not end with what I felt was a very accurate tally of my addresses. I think this supervisor was an exception.
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I found a good reference for the statute that mandates the decennial period
13 U.S. Code § 141 - Population and other census information
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You completely misunderstand: Art includes statistical sampling, which is art as much as mathematics and science.
POLITICO: The president gets 53 percent backing for a hypothetical 2024 primary
Actually, this is good news. (Meaning bad news for Trump.)
Last summer he was at 82% among Republicans according to WaPo (94% according to Trump).
This has to be a big letdown. Probably Hugo Chavez built the calculator POLITICO used.
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Can she be charged with a crime for falsifying data on the Constitutionally mandated census?
That might be too unwieldy (~1,400 members), but I’d be happy with “one per [population of smallest state] which would give a house of about 500 at the moment. That would go a long way towards fixing the electoral college as well.
That doesn’t have to be unwieldy. Just shift them to mostly working from their home districts and remote voting, plus reduce their number of committee and subcommittee assignments. As for quorum requirements, there is no reason a remotely-cast “present” can’t work as “currently paying attention.” The Constitution does not require the requisite Quorum to conduct business to be present on the House floor.
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I’d I had been talking about the art of the census, perhaps. But I was not, I was talking about the law and the Supremes and why accuracy is not the goal.
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Love your idea. If only.
Census inaccuracies and omissions long predate the Tr*mp administration. I should know; I have never once been contacted by the census personnel either by mail or in person. Whether they filled out their best guesses for my household, or just ignored it, I will never know. For the 2020 census I tried to do the right thing and visited the census website. But without a code that I was supposed to get on the mail (never did get any mail) I could not register. Therefore, I am still an Uncounted American. I am sure my story is not unique.
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I’d keep the mail-in and on-line responses to the census, but we need a new push to finish the job. Not only to catch those skipped or mis-reported because of time pressures, but to catch those that were afraid to respond during the trump administration because they were immigrants, etc.
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OT, but the latest example of Republican integrity:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/25/bunny-welsh-trump-sheriff-theft/
Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh, the former sheriff in Chester County, Pa., was among President Trump’s earliest boosters and appeared at trump rallies as well as at several ‘law enforcement’ events trump held at the White House.
She, along with her husband, are accused of mishandling about $200,000 in funds associated with a K-9 unit and its associated charity.
[My quick summary: He took money from the charity while she used deputies ‘on the clock’ to help fundraise for that charity, and she also benefitted from the diverted funds.]
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I was a census enumerator in Milwaukee for about six weeks. It was obvious from the start this census would be severely compromised just by the constricted schedule; we missed about three months of data collection due to Covid. The under count cited in the article refers to something called proxy interviews. After three unsuccessful attempts to interview a respondent, enumerators were ordered to attempt three proxy interviews, typically neighbors. If a neighbor refused to cooperate, or said “I see them from time to time but we never talk,” we were instructed to mark the respondent address as having at least one occupant. If the proxy neighbor said “There’s a man and woman, but that’s all I know”, then you mark two people. I don’t know how it was done in past censuses, but this shorthand method of counting people was better than nothing given the time restraints. If we couldn’t guess the number of people in the house, the under count would be even worse.
Under counts also happened when a restricted access apartment complex refused to allow enumerators in. One complex would only tell me if the apartment was occupied on April 1, but not by how many. It was corporate policy, and appealing to the company execs in Detroit did not change their minds. Some complex managers would tell me the number of occupants, but nothing about the races, ages, or marital status, because they either didn’t know or weren’t comfortable sharing information. There were also a surprising number of “dangerous addresses” on the case lists, and about 50 of those were not closed in Milwaukee when census operations ceased.
My short time with the Census Bureau reminded what a relatively safe, privileged white bubble I live in. I visited severely distressed neighborhoods where people looked puzzled when I asked them if they knew their neighbors. One man called the police on me when I opened a screen door to leave a Notice of Visit. I had the door slammed in my face a dozen times, and was propositioned by prostitutes. On man came to the door so drunk, at 2 in the afternoon, that he could barely stand or understand my questions. One time a man told me that two heroin addicts had been squatting for several months in the back of a truck that was parked in his driveway. Another time a man answered the door yelling at me in Spanish, which I don’t speak. That would have been a real disadvantage on the south side of Milwaukee. I still have no idea what he was saying.
I also met kind and helpful people who gladly cooperated, or offered me bottled water. I really enjoyed the work, and felt let down when the work suddenly stopped in October.
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Does the constitution prohibit amending or correcting the decennial census if it’s FUBAR?
Does the Constitution prohibit amending or correcting Due Process or Equal Protection if they’re FUBAR? No, it does not. It merely requires them, without room for Congress to legislate them away. Same with the decennial census.
I was asking about the execution of the decennial census, not it’s requirement. An inaccurate census is useless and arguably in contradiction of its mandate. I don’t think anyone would argue that a misapplication or neglect of Due Process or Equal Protection can’t be corrected. Why not a bungled or corrupted census?