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FACT FOCUS: DeSantis’ Misleading Claims About Why Florida Missed Out on a Congressional Seat
- Ron DeSantis claimed that the 2020 census numbers for Florida need "fixing" to gain another congressional seat.
- DeSantis stated, "Even the Biden administration acknowledged that Florida got shortchanged in the reapportionment stemming from the last census."
- While undercount numbers could justify another seat, they cannot be used to change congressional allocations.
- The Constitution prohibits reassignment of congressional seats based on estimates rather than actual enumeration.
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FACT FOCUS: DeSantis' misleading claims about why Florida missed out on a congressional seat
The Biden administration never said that. DeSantis is referring to the bureau’s post-enumeration survey, or PES, which was a self-evaluation of the quality of the once-a-decade census count, examining where there were overcounts and undercounts.
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