The Algorithm That Rigged the Census:
How One Bureaucrat Stole the House and
Billions in Funding
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Original Article
Posted By: Christopher L,
10/13/2025 3:43:22 PM
The 2020 census was marketed as an “actual enumeration,” a neutral count of people for apportionment and funding. It was not. The same official who helped block a basic citizenship question in 2018, John M. Abowd, then the Census Bureau’s Chief Scientist, pushed through a new, opaque methodology in 2020 called differential privacy. The new system deliberately injected mathematical noise into every block count in America, turning the census from a headcount into a model with knobs. The knob that mattered most was a single parameter, epsilon, a secrecy shroud known only to a small inner circle.
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Secret parameters added to the methodology? That smacks of putting the finger on the scale to tilt in the direction you wish, in other words, helping the Communists…
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/13/2025 4:08:27 PM (No. 2016245)
This goes deep into rhe weeds. Who was responsible for Abowd's being able to do this?
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redriverranger 10/13/2025 4:16:30 PM (No. 2016251)
Uhh--what's the matter with going 1, 2,3......
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JackBurton 10/13/2025 4:30:54 PM (No. 2016260)
If they could resurrect the original counts, the real data, and use it free of manipulation....?
I'm all on board. Then let the REAL redistricting... REAL apportionment of representatives to States begin.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 10/13/2025 4:35:49 PM (No. 2016262)
So, here is how one CROOKED "scientist" (scienceey FRAUDSTER) shifted the entire Congress with FAKE 'data'.
OK....now we MUST do a REAL COUNT, as is NUMBERS not 'calculations' and damn them if they do ANYTHING other than ask "How many people live in this house?"
NO other questions.
NONE.
That is a census....anything else is some sort of invasion of privacy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Encore 10/13/2025 4:54:12 PM (No. 2016271)
#5, I’d add, ‘How many U.S. citizens live in this house’?
Consequences for such actions, any voter fraud, should be extreme. I dare say to include the death penalty.
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hurricanegirl 10/13/2025 4:57:49 PM (No. 2016274)
Great information, but when is someone going to fix the mess this numbskull created? I despise cheaters, and this is cheating on a massive scale. These people MUST be held accountable to the full extent of the law, or we'll be in the same pickle in short order.
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DVC 10/13/2025 6:00:12 PM (No. 2016303)
Thank you, #5, Excellent correction for my omission.
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Birddog 10/13/2025 6:06:06 PM (No. 2016305)
it is "Interesting" that the State with the highest degree of miscounting/over counting...nearly 20%...was/is Rhode Island, by far the tiniest of states by both population and land mass.The entire State is half the size of Houston geographically, only take 45minutes to drive across, and only has a population of 1.1Million. Houston alone has had at least a "Rhode Island" of people moving there every YEAR, but Texas gets severely under counted.
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czechlist 10/13/2025 6:14:04 PM (No. 2016311)
The Census Bureau has acknowledged that 6 States were undercounted (All RED) and 8 States were overcounted (all BLUE):
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https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/2020-census-undercount-overcount-rates-by-state.html
Algorithm or not the fix was in.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 10/13/2025 9:32:52 PM (No. 2016365)
This should be a Must Read. It's that important.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimBob 10/13/2025 10:50:48 PM (No. 2016381)
Here it is again,
The 'Rats corrupt everything that they touch.
Everything.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/14/2025 12:08:06 AM (No. 2016394)
That should be Insurrection any way you look at it… perhaps even Treason.
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skacmar 10/14/2025 7:00:36 AM (No. 2016436)
It seems to be universally accepted that the census was wrong. We know that states have more o r less representation in Congress than they should have. We know that states are getting more/less federal funding than they should be getting based on population. What is being done about this? Talk about taxation without representation! And how about taxation with over representation since the over counts were in Democrat controlled states. Can this be legally remedied mid decade since the census was wrong?
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anniebc 10/14/2025 7:54:26 AM (No. 2016473)
And John Abowd will never suffer any consequences for his actions. Some entity (can't recall which/who) has filed a lawsuit to throw out the 2020 census and have a redo. It would reshape congress just in time for the 2026 election. They'd better get moving. We know congress won't do anything. They're about as useless as the little AI dog I've recently seen advertised. That dog at least does what it's created to do. Those sorry saps go on TV and express outrage (about something they are supposed to fix) as if we're supposed to do something to fix things, when supposedly, that's what we have them for. They (the Pubs) sit back and let Trump do everything while they bask in their polling for reelection and hold sound bite hearings.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/14/2025 8:07:02 AM (No. 2016477)
"The tilt was unmistakable. Democratic-leaning states were widely overcounted."
And there ya have it, Democrat activist scientist in charge of counting. In case they didn't get it, this was a criminal act resulting in federal overallocation of funds to certain areas of the country.
Every American Citizen = 1. That's all you need.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 10/14/2025 12:15:00 PM (No. 2016620)
This was no accident, and the information in the article indicates the secrecy used that also prevented Congress from any type of review.
This is likely why they needed to implement the plan for the 2020 election so they would have their partisans in charge of departments like this.
What happened as a result of this intentional act was to disenfranchise millions and allocate funds to states that didn't deserve those funds. It placed additional financial burden on the other states who lost out on the funding.
This should not only be unconstitutional, which should void the appropriations that were allocated, but looks to be part of a conspiracy, thus, criminal.
Congress MUST act on this information.
It also shows why 2028 election for WH is absolutely imperative to ensure the GOP wins but also controls Congress.
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