Census 2010: ACORN Action Item?

by: Clyde   posted: 2009-01-06 09:50:00
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American Thinker has begun a valuable conversation discussing the Census 2010. Is that census going to be the next huge fraud?

If you want to relive the ACORN Problem, you may as well start in an equally dirty environment, the Old Grey Prostitute. But we're not going to waste time on ACORN. The fit into the 2010 Census is obvious. Let's structure the importance of the upcoming census.

First, here is the Census Bureau's page for getting a job: "The pay is good, the hours are flexible, and the work is close to home." "Thousands" are needed. (Seems a perfect fit for ACORN and its malignant horde, eh?)

How is the Census used? Browse through this site, but the bottom line is that the entire United States is subject to redistricting and redistribution of US House seats - the key is the geographical boundaries. We already know the new numbers of House seats.

The boundaries are set by the states. New districts are drawn (generally) by legislative action, and, of course, the party in charge of the state legislature is going to draw lines to their party's favor. Several states have adopted a commission approach - with the commission's plans either binding or advisory, but commissions are not immune from political intrigue.

Redistricting litigation is plentiful. In the 1990s. only nine states avoided litigation on redistricting plans. Follow that link to read synopses of each case. Sinkfield v. Kelley, 531 U.S. 28 (Nov. 27, 2000) is a typical case:

The districts for Alabama’s Legislature had been drawn with an “acknowledged purpose [of] maximiz[ing] . . . the number of majority-minority districts.” 531 U.S. at 28. The plaintiffs, white voters who resided in majority-white districts that neighbored majority-minority districts, alleged that their (majority-white) districts were the product of racial gerrymander in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Relying on United States v. Hays, 515 U.S. 737 (1995), the Supreme Court held that the plaintiffs lacked standing in that “they have neither alleged nor produced any evidence that any of them was assigned to his or her district as a direct result of having ‘personally been subjected to a racial classification.’” 531 U.S. at 30, quoting Hays, 515 U.S. at 745. The Court vacated the judgment of the district court and remanded the cases with instructions to dismiss the complaint.

So who controls the state legislatures now?

Post-2008 elections, here's the upper legislative house:

Post-2008 elections, here's the lower legislative house:

Way too much blue for my liking.

Contact the Census Bureau if you can fit the job into your schedule. We'll be covering the 2010 Census in detail as it unfolds.

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