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Sept. 18, 2025 - Epoch Times
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Why the U.S. Census Is so Important—And So Controversial | Florida AG James Uthmeier
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A lot of people just view the census as a number crunching exercise the government does every ten years to count how many people are here, but it truly is the central function of deciding electoral power in our country.
Um because everybody goes in and votes, but the reality is the electoral college, that is how the electoral votes get awarded for presidential elections.
Uh the electoral votes decide how many, you know, members of Congress come from each state.
Uh the electoral power also decides how federal funding gets allocated and distributed.
Um so the census is is a a highly politicized uh operation in government, and unfortunately, I think the bureaucrats and the left have weaponized it uh to disproportionately hand out more electoral power to states that are sanctuary states that are blue states that that want to, you know, bring in as many illegal aliens, as many foreigners as possible.
And I think that runs very counter to our constitution and and way of life here in the United States.
So we believe, you know, ultimately states like California, Illinois, New York, you know, f Florida probably disproportionately has some additional seats based on illegal aliens in the state, but at the end of the day, there would be a twenty to thirty electoral vote swing to Republican states if we're only including US citizens in the electoral distribution.
And it makes sense.
Only United States citizens have the right to vote.
Our Constitution starts off with we the people of the United States.
If you're truly going to allow people illegally in the United States to be included in this electoral power, foreign enemies could take significant advantage of this.
They could flood people into certain parts of of the United States just during census season in order to try to shift votes.
And you know, you you're aware of elections we've had in modern history.
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