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Including people without legal status in census has had little impact on House seats, study finds

  • A study from the University of Minnesota found that excluding people without legal status minimally affects House seats or Electoral College votes.
  • The U.S. Census Bureau has historically counted all residents, regardless of legal status, for congressional apportionment per the 14th Amendment.
  • Republican state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit aiming to exclude those in the U.S. Illegally from apportionment counts.
  • U.S. Representative Chuck Edwards stated that Americans deserve fair and equal representation by eliminating the influence of noncitizens in elections.
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Including People Without Legal Status in Census Has Had Little Impact on House Seats, Study Finds

Republicans are trying again to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states. But a new study says their inclusion in the past four censuses has had little impact on presidential elections or control of Congress.

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Including people without legal status in census has had little impact on House seats, study finds

Republicans are trying to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states. But a new study says their

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State would conduct independent decennial census under proposal

PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers want the state to conduct and pay for its own census every decade with the express goal of getting a count that that excludes anyone who

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Republicans are trying again to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states. But a new study says their inclusion in the past four censuses has had little impact on presidential elections or control of Congress. If residents lacking permanent legal status had been excluded from the census numbers used in the apportionment process from 1980 to 2020, no more than two seats …

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