AMERICARENEWING (CRA Staff) - CRA Submits Comment Supporting Census Bureau’s Proposed Rule
The proposed rule is an important step toward de-weaponizing the decennial Census. For too long, the Census has been treated as an all-purpose statistical product rather than as a distinct constitutional function that determines the allocation of political representation in the United States. The post CRA Submits Comment Supporting Census Bureau’s Proposed Rule appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
The 2020 Census saw a weaponized enumeration with a disclosure avoidance system called differential privacy that intentionally introduced uncertainty and data falsification into granular population data, even though those data are used to draw the districts through which Americans elect their representatives. At the same time, the Census increasingly became a vehicle for demographic and statistical objectives that blurred the reason the Constitution requires an enumeration every ten years. The Census Bureau now recognizes the need to change course. Its Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis identifies a “regulatory failure”: existing regulations “did not properly prioritize the population count” or adequately protect it from…Open
