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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1149099)	7/12/2019 5:42:41 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574005

"they ask many questions on the census, including what race you are." I usually tell them the 660 yard run. "the Census Bureau has ways to make up for any and all factors which lead to undercounting. That includes going door-to-door." Rat's old job (1990) "FDR once said, 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'" So why do you fear the most accurate count possible? Citizenship census question meant to help GOP win elections: report ... businessinsider.com May 30, 2019 - In one 2015 study discovered on his hard drive, Hofeller reportedly analyzed what Texas electoral maps would look like if drawn based on population surveys that only counted the voting-age population of the state, instead of drawing districts based on the standard measure of the total population. According to The Times' summation of the study, Hofeller found that such a plan — which would not include non-citizen Latinx Texans or their minor children in drawing districts — would "be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites" by allocating fewer congressional representatives for majority Latinx and Democratic-voting areas, and more for majority-white and more conservative parts of Texas. Hofeller explicitly wrote, however, that carrying out this plan of guaranteeing more favorable district maps for Republicans would be "functionally unworkable ... without a question on citizenship being included on the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire," The Times reported.