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Originally Posted by einbert
If they find some way to screw with the numbers, they could in theory give extra Electoral Votes and Congressional Seats to heavily red states.
There are a lot of things they could do through the census. They could fudge the numbers and shift a few EVs and seats from California, NY, etc to red states as you pointed out. Also, keep in mind that minorities tend to be under-represented in the census because they are less likely to want to answer the phone for the government. The more aggressively they act over the phone, the more likely people are to not answer questions, etc.
Also, they could use the census to round up illegal and "illegal," immigrants.