The Census Bureau’s own Post-Enumeration Survey, the internal audit that checks the official count against a sample of households, found that Tennessee was undercounted by 4.78%, Florida by 3.48%, and Texas by 1.92%. On the other side of the ledger, Delaware was overcounted by 5.45%, Rhode Island by 5.05%, and New York by 3.44%, with Hawaii and Minnesota padded as well. These figures are the Bureau’s own, and they are not rounding artifacts. A 3.48% miss in a state of 22 million people is roughly 750,000 residents who were never recorded. The Bureau published these figures, described them as regrettable, and then explained that nothing could be done about them until 2030. The agency confessed to the error and simultaneously declared the error permanent, which is a convenient combination for anyone who benefits from it, and the people who benefit from it are Democrats.
The 2020 count miscounted Americans in a pattern that ran in a single direction: toward the states Democrats dominate and away from the states Republicans dominate. The direction is the whole story, and a great deal of official commentary since 2022 has been devoted to persuading the public that the direction can be ignored. Democrats and the press that covers for them have talked as if a one-way miss were weather. An error that always lands on the same party’s states is the thing a serious country investigates, and this country has been asked to shrug instead.
Every census has errors. Counting 330 million people is genuinely hard; some communities are transient or suspicious of federal workers, and no statistical operation of that size comes out clean. All of that is true, and none of it explains what happened in 2020. Random error scatters. If the Bureau’s methods were merely imperfect, the misses would fall on both sides of the political map in roughly equal proportions, and some Republican states would have been padded while some Democratic states were shorted. Six of the eight states with the largest documented undercounts voted for the Republican nominee, and the padded states were, with striking consistency, the ones that send Democrats to Washington. That is the pattern Democrats want treated as an act of God.
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