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From voter suppression to census suppression by Jeff vonKaenel
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Last fall, I asked some members of the citizenship question to better enforce the California Endowment team, who had Voting Rights Act. In January, a federal just completed their excellent work on judge in New York ruled against U.S. voter registration and previously had done Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, saying outreach for Covered California, what their he “failed to consider several important next big project would be. They told me: aspects of the problem; alternately ignored, “The census.” cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the The census? Frankly, I thought the evidence in the record before him; acted census was like eating your vegetables— irrationally both in light of that evidence and something good, but not one of the most his own stated decisional criteria; and failed significant issues of our time. I was wrong. to justify significant departures from past Census data determines the number policies and practices—a veritable smorgasof U.S. House representatives each state bord of classic, clear-cut ... violations.” receives. Census data controls the size of You’d think this strongly worded decistate and local election districts. And census sion would be the last word. But no, the data is used to allocate about $675 billion a Trump administration is appealing the case year—about $20,000 per person—in federal to the conservative majority on the U.S. funds for housing, transportation, schools Supreme Court, which is expected to make and more, over the decade that its ruling by the end of June. follows the census. This is a ton Much is at stake. One of money. government estimate is that Adding If all people were 6.5 million residents may a citizenship counted, as they should not participate in the question to the be, this would be a great census if the citizenship system. But not all question is included. standard census populations are counted What would form will mean a lower equally. happen, I wonder, if count in minority The Census Bureau the commerce secretary estimates that the 2010 wanted to add a quesand immigrant census had overcounted tion on gun ownership? communities. non-Hispanic whites by 0.08 That question might percent, while undercounting suppress the census count African-Americans by 2.1 percent among those individuals who did and Hispanics by 1.5 percent. And these not want the federal government to know problems occurred before President Donald that they had guns. And gun-toting states Trump and the fear he has instilled in the such as Wyoming, Alaska and Montana immigrant community with his rhetoric. would risk losing large amounts of federal Now the same people who brought funding. The citizenship question makes you voter suppression and a tax bill that as much sense as the gun question. Neither penalized Democratic-voting states includshould be on the census. ing California are working on census The census should be not be manipusuppression. lated for political gain. We have enough of By adding a citizenship question to that already. the standard census form, we will see a The census fight is a political fight. It lower count in minority and immigrant is a revenue fight. And it is a fight for the communities, which will decrease political soul of America. Ω representation and federal revenue for areas that have a high percentage of these populations—California, for example. Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority In a bizarre legal defense, the Trump owner of the News & Review. administration said it needed to add the