Author: Ned Ryun

The census has become a tool for shifting political power away from citizens. That trend can be reversed. If the reforms outlined below are adopted and every state draws its congressional maps to the full extent the law allows, the House of Representatives after the 2031 redistricting would sit at a ceiling of 261 Republicans to 174 Democrats, compared with 220 Republicans and 215 Democrats under the 2020 Census.

The Census Bureau recently proposed a rule that begins to make the same necessary corrections CRA supports by restoring meaning to residence, putting accuracy first, and limiting demographic questions that have increasingly burdened the constitutional count.