Anonymous ID: 649225 Jan. 20, 2024, 10:39 p.m. No.20276696   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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As explained below, as a result of these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats and Texas did not receive one more congressional seat. Meanwhile, two other states, Minnesota and Rhode Island, each retained a congressional seat that they should have lost, and Colorado gained a new seat to which it was rightfully not entitled.3

Mike Schneider, In 2 States, 1 in 20 Residents Missed During US Head Count, Associated Press (May 19, 2022), https://apnews.com/article​/texas-minnesota-florida-arkansas-786339c0f7b267abe4d8f4f14c6f713d; Am. Redistricting Project, 2020 Census Count Errors & Congressional Apportionment (June 13, 2022), https://thearp.org/blog/apportionment/2020-census-count-errors/.

The harms flowing from these mistakes impact more than just congressional representation, which also affects the number of electors from those states since they are calculated by the number of Senators and Representatives in each state.4

U.S. Const., art. II, § 1, cl. 2.

Because the Treasury and other federal departments will continue to use the original, official Census numbers (and not the new numbers contained in the PES), these errors will affect $1.5 trillion in funding received by states in federal appropriations during the next decade in disbursements that are distributed based on the population of each state.5

Schneider, supra note 3.

 

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/census-bureau-errors-distort-congressional-representation-the-states