[EL] what if the Census is not defensibly accurate?

[Douglas Johnson]

That's the trick with the Census: there is no alternative total population
count.

The next-best dataset is the American Community Survey, but its statistical
controls depend on the decennial census numbers (which is true of
essentially every dataset out there, private or public). And if American
Community Survey data is ever judged to be 'as good as' decennial census
data, then that blows up the data reliability arguments against using the
ACS "citizens of voting age" data for redistricting.

Douglas Johnson
President, National Demographics Corporation
djohnson at NDCresearch.com

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:44 PM Jeff Hauser <jeffhauser at gmail.com> wrote:

> What if, due to malice or circumstance (including but not limited to a
> pandemic), the census that occurs in 2020 does not provide a result in
> which any person of good will can have confidence?
>
> I'm not talking about litigation around the edges -- I am asking what if
> the whole thing appears rotten. What interpretative standards would be
> applied by courts, what would be the best work arounds....
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- Doug

Douglas Johnson
National Demographics Corporation
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