The fight over adding a citizenship question to the 2020
census has a solution. Any person answering the census must be given a choice. The right to refuse to
answer a question for fear of retaliation is a valid one. The bureau is required to count all responses by law. If an executive order from President Donald Trump is given to place the question on the form, the bureau is required to give a person the following answer choices.
- Question: Are you a Citizen of the United States of America?
- Answer: (1)Yes (2)No (3)Choose not to answer.
The census is a count of people and, all responses(1,2, and 3) must
be counted. This includes people incarcerated in any local,
state, or federal prison. Legislative districts are drawn
by the number of people in a geographic area regardless of citizenship. The question then becomes another column on a spreadsheet.
The hope is that elected leaders like Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilcrest
and others like him could be better utilized to end the confusion of the census
and, get people working on real issues, like printing the correct address of the Detroit Regional Office on the Census Bureau website instead of being obstructionists.
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| Lt. Gov Garlin Gilcrest There Will be NO hidden figures in the 2020 Census |
Since the inception of the census in 1990 former census employees like Herman Hollerith often quit these jobs and form their own company like IBM. Counting people and predicting population shifts has become easier through the use of technology. For instance, using the number of new service requests from utility companies, tax filings, and other data, large increases or decreases in population are monitored for use. The counting of people has evolved from counting them with punch cards to near real time counting of all citizens.
Wikipedia: Herman Hollerith - Gov Employee to Founder of IBM
Therefore, the entire citizenship question is a jobs program for information technology professionals and, a complete waste of Private, State and Federal Government Attorney’s time, talent, and abilities. We are glad that leaders like Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel getting the Attorneys out of the Information Technology business.
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| Dana Nessel Michigan Attorney General |
Others Attorneys at the Federal Level need to take her lead in this effort serve, not hinder the people with the under-utilization of legal professionals and the abuse of Judges hearing case arguments to do the same.
