Jeff Miller: “I am amazed that there is so much opposition to this proposal. It was used in 1990, and it is about getting the most…”

“I am amazed that there is so much opposition to this proposal. It was used in 1990, and it is about getting the most accurate, trusted and legal census possible. In 1990 it addressed 400,000 mistakes. It corrected 400,000 mistakes. Everybody wants to say we are undercounted. Well, this is one way to help correct the undercount problem. It is a voluntary program. No one is mandated to do it. It is the smaller communities and towns that feel the greatest interest in even doing this, because big cities have full-time people working on the census. Now, let me make sure we understand what the Supreme Court did say. The Supreme Court said that we must have a full enumeration for apportionment, and they also indicate, in my opinion, though it is going to have to go back to the court, that it is going to apply to redistricting. In fact, CRS issued a report in February of this year, and let me read the sentence: 'However, a closer examination of all other parts of the Court's opinion indicates that it did not interpret those other purposes as necessarily including at least intrastate redistricting.' This is a good commonsense idea. It helps address the undercount, and that is what we want to do is address the undercount, get everybody counted. It makes a better census.”