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Indiana Republican Sen. Jim Banks on Monday urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the United States Census Bureau to probe the 2020 Census, arguing it may have been skewed under the Biden administration to include illegal migrants.
Banks said the investigation should look into whether the census improperly shifted congressional representation and Electoral College votes.
"As prepared by the Biden administration, the 2020 Census reports miscounted the population of fourteen states, wrongly allocating six congressional seats and Electoral College votes to the Democrat party," the letter states. "The reports may have also miscounted the population in a number of voting districts."
The letter comes after President Donald Trump directed the department in August to conduct a new census report, which is usually released every 10 years.
The senator stated that the Biden administration used a controversial statistical method called differential privacy in the census and allegedly counted illegal migrants without confirming their citizenship status.
"As problematic as the 2020 Census was for apportionment, it may have been disastrous for redistricting," Banks wrote in the letter. "Differential privacy alters the total population of individual voting districts, meaning that any voting district drawn since the 2020 census may in fact have been based on false data and may even be unlawful.
