| [American Liberty] President Trump’s call for a mid-decade census has been met with the predictable clamor of objections, legalistic squabbles, and cries of partisanship. But strip away the politics, and one finds a more elemental issue: representation rooted in reality versus power propped up by error. In 2020, the US Census Bureau, to its credit, admitted what is perhaps the most consequential mistake in its modern history. Through its own Post-Enumeration Survey, it revealed that it had severely undercounted Republican-leaning states like Texas, Florida, and Tennessee, while substantially overcounting Democrat strongholds such as Minnesota, Rhode Island, and New York. The resulting distortion stripped states like Texas and Florida of seats they rightly earned and awarded phantom representation to states like Minnesota and Rhode Island. This was not a statistical quibble but a systemic fracture in our representative republic. When population counts determine congressional seats and electoral votes, such errors do not merely skew data. They rig elections. |