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10 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
President Trump is expected to miss this census deadline under Title 2 of the U.S. Code today as the Census Bureau continues trying to fix irregularities found in the census records to make sure they're accurate before census results are released:
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/… (a) On the first day, or within one week thereafter, of the
2. As I reported last week, the release of the first set of 2020 census results (state population counts) used to determine each state's share of votes in the House and the Electoral College for the next decade is not expected until Feb. 9 or later:
npr.org/2021/01/04/953…
3. The Census Bureau's associate director for the 2020 census said in a court filing last week that the bureau's "committed to fixing all identified anomalies & to producing complete & accurate census results as close to the statutory deadline as possible"
4. It's important to keep in mind that finding "anomalies” in the census records is not unusual because trying to gather information about every person living in the U.S. has always been a messy process, which was even more complicated last year because of COVID-19.
5. What's been unusual is the Trump administration's pressure on the Census Bureau to cut short the quality checks needed to make sure no resident is counted more than once or in the wrong place. President Trump has also been trying to alter a key count:
npr.org/2020/12/31/950…
6. By the way, all of this uncertainty with the timing of the first census results means that when state and local governments will receive the redistricting data needed to redraw voting districts is still up in the air too.
7. And in case you're wondering
npr.org/2020/11/12/933…

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11 Jan
BREAKING: The expected release date for the 1st set of 2020 results has been pushed back further, now March 6, DOJ attorney John Coghlan tells a federal judge during a court conference. The Census Bureau's working "diligently" to fix irregularities in census records, Coghlan says
2. The Census Bureau has not uncovered any additional "anomalies" in the census records since those Coghlan disclosed on Jan. 4 to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh for the National Urban League-led lawsuit over the Trump administration's census schedule changes.
3. The 1st set of census results, again, are the new state population counts that are used to determine each state's share of congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next 10 years. The 2nd set of results are redistricting data. Timing for that release is still TBD
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9 Jan
The census is likely to be one of the most urgent priorities for the next commerce secretary. But Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo didn't make a single reference to it during her first speech since being named as Biden's intended nominee.

My updated story:
npr.org/sections/biden…
2. Commerce Dept's mission is "to help spur good-paying jobs...empower entrepreneurs to innovate & grow...come together with working families & American businesses to create new opportunities," Raimondo said w no mention of dept's bread & butter — survey data & weather forecasts
3. If confirmed, Raimondo would inherit the supervision of a census that's been upended by COVID-19 and last-minute changes by Trump officials, which have raised a lot of questions about the data's accuracy and public perception of the Census Bureau as a trusted institution.
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6 Jan
While we wait for Electoral College votes to be tallied by Congress, your regular reminder that your state's share of 435 of those votes is determined by the census
npr.org/2020/12/31/950… That's because the Constitution requires a count of every pe
2. Your state's share of 100 of those Electoral College votes is based on Senate seats (2 each to 50 states), and 3 votes go to Washington, D.C. because of the 23rd Amendment.

But what primarily determines how much of a say your state has in who is president, that's the census.
3. To be clear, how the 538 electoral votes are currently assigned to the states is based on the 2010 census.

The 2020 census affects the presidential elections of 2024 & 2028.

When thinking about the census, think in the long term because it carries 10 years of consequences.
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6 Jan
NEW: The Census Bureau's associate director for the 2020 census, Al Fontenot, confirms in this court filing that newly discovered anomalies may further delay the first census results' release past Feb. 9, which was the projected release date as of Dec. 29
beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2044… these estimates are subject to change as work to complete th
2. This court filing confirms news I reported yesterday out of a court conference for the National Urban League-led lawsuit over census schedule changes:
npr.org/2021/01/04/953…
3. "Census Bureau officials have expressed concern that altering the sequence of steps or schedule for data processing could increase the possibility that data errors are not identified or remedied," the court filing signed by Fontenot says. It also says: Other than crafting patches for the data anomalies, the Cens
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5 Jan
The Census Bureau hasn’t responded to my questions about the latest irregularities found in the census records that require more quality checks, but a DOJ attorney told a judge they’re expected to delay the release of numbers until after Trump’s term ends.
npr.org/2021/01/04/953…
2. Finding irregularities (the bureau’s calling them “processing anomalies”) in the census records is not unusual. Trying to count every person living in the U.S. has always been a messy process, which was even more complicated in 2020 because of the pandemic.
3. What was unusual was that the Trump administration, in addition to ending counting early in October, forced the Census Bureau to cut short the time for running quality checks used to make sure no resident is counted more than once or in the wrong place.
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4 Jan
BREAKING: As of Dec. 29, the Census Bureau's expected release date for the 1st set of 2020 census results is Feb. 9 & may be pushed back further bc of newly discovered irregularities in the census records, DOJ attorney John Coghlan tells a federal judge during a court conference
2. New anomalies were recently discovered in the census records, DOJ John Coghlan said during the court conference for the Nat'l Urban League-led lawsuit over the census schedule. Coghlan emphasized all dates are tentative as the Census Bureau keeps working on fixing anomalies.
3. The 1st set of 2020 census results are the new state population counts that were due to the president by Dec. 31 and are used to reapportion House seats and Electoral College votes among the states.
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