Trump team wants to delete race from the Census and shrink the count
Because apparently, the easiest way to solve a math problem is to just stop counting everyone.
The team around Donald Trump has cooked up a plan to overhaul the Census that feels less like data collection and more like a logic puzzle. They want to stop asking about race entirely and, more controversially, exclude millions of residents from the final headcount.
The 14th Amendment is pretty clear about counting the "whole number of persons" in each state, but this proposal basically suggests that "whole" is open to interpretation. If you stop counting people who don't fit a specific criteria, the math shifts, and suddenly the voting maps look very different. It is a bold strategy to redraw the political boundaries by simply deciding some people don't technically exist for the sake of the tally.
Counting fewer people to win more power is certainly one way to handle democracy.
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