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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Indiana Republican senator rips Biden for 2020 census, calling it a ‘fraud.’ Trump was president

Republican Senator Jim Banks is asking the Department of Commerce to review, and possibly re-do, the 2020 census, believing former President Joe Biden miscounted data to benefit Democrats – despite the fact that the census was conducted under President Donald Trump’s first administration.

In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, sent on Monday, Banks claims the Biden administration used a “shady privacy formula”, called differential privacy that “scrambled” data and allowed undocumented immigrants to respond to the survey.

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