U.S. Census Bureau Delays Revealing Voters
By Stefan J. Bos, Special Correspondent Worthy News
(Worthy News) – The U.S. Census Bureau will miss for the first time a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, in a setback for President Donald J. Trump.
The delay announced Wednesday threatened to undermine Trump’s efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count. The figures aren’t submitted before declared President-elect Joe Biden takes office, documents showed.
Once in office, Biden could rescind Trump’s presidential memorandum directing the Census Bureau to exclude migrants staying illegally in the U.S. from numbers used for divvying up congressional seats among the states.
Internal documents obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform reportedly show that Census Bureau officials don’t expect the apportionment numbers to be ready in time. Instead, the Bureau will release them days after Biden is inaugurated on January 20.
The Bureau’s decision to delay releasing those figures also undermined Trump’s investigations into claims that non-citizens cast ballots illegally in the presidential race.
MANY BALLOTS
An estimated 234,570 extra votes were cast by non-citizens in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, enough to deliver a win for according to a report by Just Facts Daily. The website is an extension of the conservative-leaning research institute Just Facts.
The claims reflect those made by the Trump campaign after the 2016 election. Trump lost the popular vote because non-citizens accounted for more than 800,000 votes for then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the campaign said.
Other investigators and Democrats deny those charges.
Despite the controversies, the Census Bureau’s watchdog agency defended its decision to delay figures impacting elections.
It stressed it was concerned about lapses in quality control checks meant to detect falsifications by census takers.
The Office of Inspector General said the Census Bureau failed to complete 355,000 re-interviews of households to verify their information was accurate, The Associated Press agency reported.
MAIL-IN WIN
It comes after nearly 160 million Americans – the highest share of eligible voters in more than a century – voted in the November election in which Joe Biden was declared the winner.
It was fueled by a surge in mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic. Americans cast 101 million mail-in ballots. That accounts for 63 percent of the overall vote, with Biden supporters dominating mail-in voting by a 2 to 1 margin over Trump supporters.
However, Trump’s legal teams have questioned those numbers and launched legal challenges, including in several battleground states such as Georgia.
On Wednesday, Georgia Senate’s Election Law Study Subcommittee unanimously passed a motion for an audit of absentee ballots in Fulton County.
The decision came as most fraud allegations were aimed at the heavily Democratic Fulton County, including Georgia’s capital Atlanta.
BALLOTS BATCHES
Security camera footage from election night shows that in Fulton County, seen by Worthy News, appears to reveal tens of thousands of ballots were counted in the absence of party or state monitors.
The video seems to show that election workers scanned the same batches of ballots repeatedly for unknown reasons.
Amid the controversies, organizers say they expect over a million people to show up at a rally in Washington D.C. on January 6 to protest alleged election fraud. Ali Alexander, a national organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement, said he is confident many people will show up.
“We’re going to have over a million people in Washington, D.C. because we have the president even tweeting about the event,” Alexander told reporters. “What we’re working on right now is lobbying members in the House and members in the Senate.
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