by Victoria Taft, PJ Media:
If things hadn’t worked out as they did on Tuesday, with Democrat pollsters calling this presidential race too close to call Donald Trump could have lost the election because of the government’s bad math. Was that bad math on purpose? Was it part of the #Resistance? Good questions. Let’s look at the evidence.
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The Heritage Foundation’s go-to elections savant Hans von Spakovsky discovered a “shocking“ anomaly in 2020 Census Bureau numbers. Worse, the anomalous numbers were revealed in the “corrected“ government follow-up report two years later, in 2022. Those math errors occurred in 14 states, the majority considered to be red states.
Spakovsky reports that Trump was deprived of nine additional Electoral College votes because of the numbers andKamala Harris was accorded six she shouldn’t have gotten.
Here’s how that happened in the 2020 Census and the follow-up Post-Enumeration Survey (PES), according to Spakovsky:
[A]s a result of these errors, Florida did not receive two additional congressional seats and Texas did not receive one more congressional seat. Meanwhile, two other states, Minnesota and Rhode Island, each retained a congressional seat that they should have lost, and Colorado gained a new seat to which it was rightfully not entitled.
The harms flowing from these mistakes impact more than just congressional representation, which also affects the number of electors from those states since they are calculated by the number of Senators and Representatives in each state.
In a follow-up article, Spakovsky wrote that this math error went mostly one way.
It undercounted the populations of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas, while overcounting the populations of Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Utah. The errors ranged from a low of 1.49% to a high of 6.79%.
