The Republican-run House Oversight Committee (HOC) held hearings if government employees working with the U.S. Census Bureau were asking questions about the residence status of those being interviewed.
The committee doesn’t believe residents are being asked if they are U.S. Citizens; if so, HOC says it’s becoming a big problem to get an accurate count on who’s here legally and illegally.
HOC contends population numbers in several states are being overcounted, primarily states run by democrats, which doesn’t show a true description of congressional reapportionment.
The committee found there were errors in the last count of the census back in 2020, affecting 14 different states, which gave an advantage to the Democrat-run states.
“In 2020, the Post-Enumeration Survey suggests that there were overcounts in New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Delaware, Minnesota, Utah, and Ohio. And there were undercounts in Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Illinois, and six of the eight states benefiting from overcounts tended to favor Democrats in awarding congressional apportionment and electoral college votes,” said Committee Chair Congressman Jim Comer.
Comer said states that tend to support Republicans, like Florida, were unfairly penalized by the undercounts. “These miscounts had an impact on representation. Small numbers of proportional differences in population between states can impact the apportionment calculation. In the 2020 apportionment, a difference of only 89 people was the tipping point for New York being apportioned 26 seats instead of 27,” Comer added.
Comers committee also said illegal immigrants were counted as part of the Census, which the agency demanded that questions about citizenship not be part of the 2020 questionnaire.
The HOC said the hearing was needed to ensure the same mistakes in 2020 are not on the upcoming 2030 census.
“In contrast to the 2020 census, no states were found to have had such errors in the 2010 census,” the committee said.
Republicans argue that if there had been true representation from the last census in 2020, Florida would most likely have gained another seat in Congress.
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