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republican senator jim banks Asking the Commerce Department to review and possibly redo it 2020 censustrust in former president Joe Biden Data were miscalculated to favor Democrats – despite the fact that the census was conducted under Pres. donald trumpFirst administration of.
one in Letter In a letter sent Monday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Banks claims the Biden administration used a “shady privacy formula” called differential privacy that “infected” the data and allowed undocumented immigrants to respond to the survey.
“The 2020 Census was a fraud,” Banks wrote, claiming the results gave Congressional seats and potential electoral votes to Democrats.
But Decision to use differential privacy The census and collection of census data were completed under Trump’s first administration. The Biden administration only published the first data report in April 2021.
Banks’s post soon drew attention from those who clarified that Trump was president during the 2020 census.
“Donald Trump was president in 2020,” California Governor Gavin Newsom responded.
democratic representative Eric Swalwell replied“I’m with Banks! We should find out who was president in 2020 and fire that guy!”
”’Who was the President in 2020?” remains one of the great disputed questions of American politics,” Matthew Yglesias wrote.
Banks responded Many, including Newsom, were asked to clarify what he was referring to First census report of 2020, Which was “prepared and published” in 2021 after Biden comes to office.
Banks, a Republican senator from Indiana, made headlines In April he refused to apologize for telling a fired Health and Human Services employee that he “probably deserved it.”
But the objection that banks have regarding individual privacy was a decision taken during Trump’s presidency.
“The Biden Administration, when it collected all the data from the 2020 Census, used this questionable privacy formula to protect the illegals from the 2020 Census,” Banks told Steve Bannon war Room monday.
Differential privacy is a framework that allows the release of statistical information without revealing the identities of the people involved. Adding “noise” or small, insignificant numbers to a dataset prevents people from guessing who might be included in it.
In 2019, former acting Census Director Dr. Ron Jarmin said they would use this method in the census to protect privacy. Germain served as Acting Census Director until 2022 and is currently the Deputy Director of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Independent Has sought comment from the bank office.
The Constitution requires the census to count the “whole number” of persons in each state, regardless of their citizenship – a point that Republicans, including Banks and Trump, have taken issue with.
In 2019, Trump tried unsuccessfully to include a question about a person’s citizenship status in the 2020 census, but the Supreme Court struck it down. Recently the President Put forward the idea of a new census in which non-citizens would be excluded.
The push appears to be an effort to reduce the population in big cities, which are often run by Democrats, by providing “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants.
The results of the census determine state redistricting as well as Electoral College votes.
Banks’ concerns about the 2020 Census results are not entirely unfounded. government’s post census survey Found that eight states, predominantly Democratic, were overcounted while six states, mostly Republican, were undercounted.
Large numbers of people were found to be left out of the census, such as people under 50 and Hispanics.
A 2022 report Brennan Center found that internal emails from the U.S. Census Bureau indicated that bureau officials were experiencing greater political pressure from the Trump administration to control the census data they collected.