EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Probes Why Census Miscounts Boost Democrats in Electoral College, Apportionment
19th September 2024
A key House committee has begun an investigation into Census Bureau overcounts and undercounts that favor Democrats in awarding congressional apportionment and Electoral College votes.
House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote Census Bureau Director Robert Santos on Wednesday to inquire about its communications about the overcounts and undercounts of state populations with the Biden-Harris administration and its Commerce Department, which includes the bureau.
After the 2020 census, the Census Bureau’s 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey, or PES, released the following year identified significant errors in the counts.
Such miscounts did not occur in the 2010 census, Comer noted in his letter to Santos.