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"Leading Trump Census pick
causes alarm
The 2020 count might be
put in the hands of an inexperienced professor who wrote that
'Competitive Elections are Bad for America.'
The Trump administration
is leaning toward naming Thomas Brunell, a Texas professor with no
government experience, to the top operational job at the U.S. Census
Bureau, according to two people who have been briefed on the bureau’s
plans.
Brunell, a political
science professor, has testified more than half a dozen times on
behalf of Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts, and
is the author of a 2008 book titled “Redistricting and
Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America.”
The choice would mark the
administration’s first major effort to shape the 2020 census, the
nationwide count that determines which states lose and gain electoral
votes and seats in the House of Representatives.
The fate of the census
under President Donald Trump has been closely watched by
voting-rights advocates worried that the administration — which has
already made unsupported claims about voter fraud — might nudge it
in directions that over- or undercount some Americans. Subtle
bureaucratic choices in the wording and administration of the census
can have huge consequences for who is counted, and how it shifts
American voting districts.
The pick would break with
the long-standing precedent of choosing a nonpolitical government
official as deputy director of the U.S. Census Bureau. The job has
typically been held by a career civil servant with a background in
statistics. It does not require Senate confirmation, so Congress
would have no power to block the hire.
If Brunell is installed in
a top Census Bureau job, “there are tons of little things he could
be doing to influence what the final count looks like,” said the
former high-ranking Commerce official. “The ripple effect on
reapportionment would be astounding."
Many of those decisions
would be less visible, or even invisible, to the public. Brunell, for
instance, would oversee the agency’s advertising budget, which is
essential to persuading groups like undocumented immigrants to
respond to the decennial. The agency is set to spend more than $400
million over the next few years on those advertisements, and
decisions about how and where to spend those dollars will be key to
getting an accurate count. … “
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