President-elect Joe Biden’s win has some people asking if there’s an opportunity for a 2020 census do-over.
The past eight months of the national head count have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, historic hurricane and wildfire seasons, last-minute schedule changes by the Trump administration and President Trump’s call to leave unauthorized immigrants out of a key census count for the first time in 230 years.
But whether there is a census redo is not entirely in the hands of the president — who has limited authority over the census — and it would come with a host of complications.
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