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Deep Dive: Is the Census Bureau 'Defrauding American Voters' with Its New Methodology?

By Samuel Short October 12, 2025 at 12:00pm

Was the 2020 census fraudulent? Indiana Republican Sen. Jim Banks charges that it was, and he is not alone.

On Monday, Banks posted a letter he wrote to Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, telling him, “I urge you to investigate and correct errors from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionate political power to Democrats and illegal aliens. The Census Bureau adopted a new and opaque methodology called differential privacy that, by design, scrambles the populations of states and voting districts.”

He captioned his post, “The 2020 Census was a fraud,” adding, “Americans deserve a fair count and I’m fighting to fix it.”

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Sam Short is an Instructor of History with Motlow State Community College in Smyrna, Tennessee. He holds a BA in History from Middle Tennessee State University and an MA in History from University College London. The views expressed in his articles are his own and do not reflect the views or opinions of Motlow State Community College.