Several justice experts are now calling for reform of the U.S. Census after its bureau admitted in a recent report that it undercounted Black, Latino and Indigenous Americans as part of the 2020 U.S. Census, while overcounting white and Asian Americans.
Census Bureau under fire: Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, and Arturo Vargas, CEO of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund. in a recent report that it undercounted Black, Latino and Indigenous Americans as part of the 2020 census, while overcounting white and Asian Americans.
“[The census] is the foundation of our democracy,” Kelly Percival, senior counsel and census expert at the, told Yahoo News. “And so when we know inequalities are happening like this, we're baking inequity into our democracy from the start if we don’t fix this problem.
“We can no longer rely on the traditional methods of mailing forms out to households and encouraging the public to respond — and conducting door-to-door interviews with households that do not complete these forms,” Vargas said in aA voter goes to the polls in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles.
The disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic added a huge obstacle to the latest census, which was conducted during the first year of the virus’s destruction, when many people suddenly moved locations and were less likely to open their door to government canvassers.
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