The Census, Hard-to-Count Populations, and Voter Suppression?

The first census post discussed what is called “prison gerrymandering.” This post focuses on the census’s differential undercount. The term “differential undercount” refers to the long-standing bias in the decennial census that undercounts what are called hard-to-count populations (HTC). I discuss this now before returning to the 2020 Census and the citizenship question because this next post continues the HTC discussion.

Danahy and Lang start with the premise that the census count is a voting rights issue. Voting rights can be understood in several distinct ways. One can consider voting as participation, which is the right to cast a ballot that is counted.… Read the rest