alt Hacker News> assuming our counts are even close to correct.
That's a bold assumption. States get more representatives if they inflate the population count: https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-ap...
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hugh-avherald • today at 3:37 AM
Given that Texas forgot to take advantage of this during the last election, it would seem the incentives are pretty negligible.
States aren't the ones doing the counting, though, the US Census Bureau is