The House Oversight and Accountability Committee has started an investigation into alleged overcounts and undercounts of state populations by the Census Bureau.
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote a letter to Census Bureau Director Robert Santos last week saying the miscounts disproportionately favor the Democrats and lead to congressional apportionment and Electoral College votes.
“Undercounts or overcounts can be the deciding factor between a state gaining or losing an additional representative in its delegation,” Sen. Comer wrote in the letter.
The 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey ended up finding major overcounts in the states of Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Utah, which are mostly Democratic states. Undercounts were identified in states including Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. he wrote. More people are leaving the blue states like California and New York and heading to live and work in red states like Florida and Texas.
Comer also said in his letter that the overcounts and undercounts did not happen in the 2010 census.
Silvio Canto Jr., political analyst and contributor to the American Thinker, said blue states are seeing a drop in population and therefore some losses in congressional seats. They're trying to bump up the population numbers with illegals migrants.
"The same is projected for the next census," Canto Jr. said. "The Democrats are trying to use illegal immigrants as people who would count towards the population."
The issue is not that these certain people are voting but that they are being counted in the census and affecting the congressional districts.
"Personally, I've always thought that this was wrong," said Canto Jr. "I don't think that that was the intent of the founding fathers to count people who are not here legally."
Canto Jr. said he hopes something comes out of this investigation.
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