They said that adding a citizenship question to the census would not enhance voting rights, but suppress them by reducing the head count of already undercounted minority groups, particularly the fast-growing Hispanic population. The last census failed to find 1.5 percent of the Hispanic population, the Census Bureau said, an undercount exceeded only by the 2.1 percent of African-Americans who were missed. Since then, the citizenship question has been asked annually in the American Community Survey. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe citizenship question proposed by the Justice Department differs little, if at all, from the one in the American Community Survey. In contrast, the Census Bureau must submit a final list of questions to Congress in less than three months — on April 1 — and will conduct only one major field test of the census process this spring.

Source: New York Times January 03, 2018 00:56 UTC