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The process was highly politicized and one party and the one in power while the census was administered stood to gain from sowing doubt, fear and confusion. I
by wavefunction 5y ago
The process was highly politicized and one party and the one in power while the census was administered stood to gain from sowing doubt, fear and confusion. I think the actual results gathering was handled normally but the idea of course was to depress census response rates.
- prepend 5y agoMotive isn’t evidence. I haven’t seen any serious criticism of data collection methods. Just doubting results based on “stood to gain” is silly unless there’s actual evidence. In what world would there be a conspiracy to reduce california population by 200k?
- Tostino 5y agoConsidering that is how congressional seats are apportioned, there is plenty of reason to fudge the numbers.
- windthrown 5y agoBut again, motive alone is empty. There is "plenty of reason" for me to do all kinds of terrible things that I consider abhorrent and would never act on.
- Dma54rhs 5y agoThat's just fear mongering and conspiracy theories. Looks like someone watched too much CNN/Fox.
- wavefunction 5y agoBOTH SIDES fuck dude
- throwawayboise 5y agoThis is election denialism in another guise. Do you trust our civic processes or do you not?