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It seems very unlikely that this census is corrupted. It’s also a census so the margin of error is not within a plausible margin of error.

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This news isn’t even based on the census. CA grew from 2010-2020 under the census. This number is from the CA dept of finance and is for just 2020.

The process was highly politicized and one party and the one in power while the census was administered stood to gain from sowing doubt, fear and confusion. I think the actual results gathering was handled normally but the idea of course was to depress census response rates.

Motive isn’t evidence. I haven’t seen any serious criticism of data collection methods. Just doubting results based on “stood to gain” is silly unless there’s actual evidence.

In what world would there be a conspiracy to reduce california population by 200k?

Considering that is how congressional seats are apportioned, there is plenty of reason to fudge the numbers.

But again, motive alone is empty. There is "plenty of reason" for me to do all kinds of terrible things that I consider abhorrent and would never act on.

That's just fear mongering and conspiracy theories. Looks like someone watched too much CNN/Fox.

BOTH SIDES fuck dude

This is election denialism in another guise. Do you trust our civic processes or do you not?

There were lots of news stories of how it was changing wrt to people here illegally. The supreme court even stopped some of the challenge of it, right? The article doesn't break that part down at least from what I could search in it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/win-trump-sup...

What does that have to do with california having fewer people in the census. The ruling was to count non-citizen residents.

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