On October 6, Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) strongly urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to correct census errors before 2030 by republishing the 2020 numbers using raw data, disclosing errors, and using methods that do not inflate one side’s power. His point is simple: counting noncitizens for apportionment lets states with the largest noncitizen populations gain House seats and Electoral College votes. That concentrates political power in a few deep blue jurisdictions where voter verification is fast and loose. And where identity is not cross-checked with registrations, voter fraud escalates. This is no coincidence that the census points to states with no voter ID requirements.

The Census Bureau’s Post Enumeration Survey found significant count errors in fourteen states: Overcounts: Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah. Undercounts: Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas.

These errors shape congressional seats, statehouse lines, and the Electoral College. States with large noncitizen populations benefit when every person present is counted for apportionment. Banks warns that overcounts in blue strongholds and undercounts in red states compound the tilt across a decade. Banks also asks Commerce to drop experimental privacy distortions and make the 2030 methods transparent so the public can trust the map.

Fourteen states and the District of Columbia let people vote in person without presenting an ID document. Identity is verified by signature, affidavit, or basic personal information. The list: California, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont. Five of the 14 census miscount states also appear here: Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York.

Others on the miscount list require ID, and several no-ID states were not miscounted. The overlap is not perfect, but the clustering is real. These states traditionally vote Democratic. Add expansive mail voting, drop boxes, and inconsistent voter roll maintenance, and you get a system that is easy to exploit and hard to audit after the fact. An honest map starts with an honest list.

If this is not fixed, the nation’s map hardens blue by procedure rather than persuasion.

The remedy is to publish the unmasked 2020 data so states can validate their lines. Run the 2030 Census with transparent methods, measuring citizens and noncitizens distinctly for apportionment choices. Require documentary ID to vote, provide it free, and back it with a quarterly voter roll matched to deaths and movers. Make mail-ballot authentication meaningful, and keep a tight chain of custody. One eligible person, one verified vote, one accurate count.

That is how you keep a constitutional republic, and how you cool a country tired of maps engineered by political agendas.

As in Proverbs 16:11, “Honest weights and scales are the Lord’s; All the weights in the bag are His work.”

Keeping dishonest census is worse than, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.

Sources

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/srtmtx4iz4te9i233v3qs/2025.10.06-Letter-to-Commerce-re-2030-census-FINAL.pdf?dl=0

https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-banks-calls-for-investigation-into-2020-census-miscounts-and-data-integrity/

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/2020-census-undercount-overcount-rates-by-state.html

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/2020-census-estimates-of-undercount-and-overcount.html

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107160.pdf

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/07/24/how-removing-unauthorized-immigrants-from-census-statistics-could-affect-house-reapportionment/

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/same-day-voter-registration

https://thearp.org/blog/apportionment/2020-census-count-errors/

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Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-52) means “give ear.” It is a Hebrew call to listen carefully to what follows. It is the name of the “Song of Moses,” beginning with “Hear (Ha’azinu), O heavens, as I speak! Listen, earth, to the words from my mouth!” Moses, nearing the end of his life, delivers this prophetic oracle as both a warning and a witness.

He foretells Israel’s future unfaithfulness and God’s righteous judgment. Yet this reaches across time to the Messianic redemption. Moses urges Israel to “take to heart” these words, for they are not trivial but “your very life” (Deuteronomy 32:47). Then, having fulfilled his mission, Moses ascends Mount Nebo to view the Promised Land he will not enter.

So, what does this have to do with you?

Within the song, Moses uses vivid imagery to reveal God’s heart. The LORD’s teaching falls like rain, nourishing His people as an eagle stirs its young to fly.

But Israel, once nurtured, grows fat and rebellious, chasing false gods. God warns that such rebellion will bring famine, plague, and the sword, yet His covenant remains. He will not abandon them forever.

The song offers a sweeping outline of divine justice: God chooses and provides (v.9-14), Israel rebels (v.16-18), God disciplines (v.19-20), avenges His people (v.27-33), declares His uniqueness (v.37-39), and finally atones for the land and His people (v.43).

Through every turn, God’s perfection and righteousness stand firm. Sounds a lot like life, right? Yet, through all of our trials, God’s promise is the same as Christ’s in Matthew 28:20, “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

A key lesson is revealed in verse 7: “Remember how the old days were; think of the years through all the ages. Ask your father, he will tell you…”

The Hebrew word “olam,” often translated “old days,” actually means “eternity.” Moses is teaching us to see history not as isolated moments, but as a continuum of God’s eternal plan.

We cannot judge divine justice by the short span of our lifetimes. Instead, we must study the whole sweep of His work — from Adam to Abraham to Moses — and what Scripture reveals about the future. In doing so, we begin to understand God’s justice and faithfulness. Wisdom grows when we learn from those who came before us and trace God’s purposes through time.

Moses’ song reminds us that history is not random. It is “His-Story.” Every generation, every rise and fall of nations, every act of mercy and judgment serves one great purpose: to reveal God’s righteousness to the world. That’s why the call to study, obey, and pass down His word is not an optional exercise. It is life itself.

In a world quick to forget its past and redefine its future, Ha’azinu calls us to remember, to listen, and to trust that God’s justice is unfolding exactly as He intends. Our task is to keep the story alive in our hearts, our homes, and our generations until the final redemption is revealed.

As Deuteronomy 32:7 says, “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.”

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