NPR: “An independent panel of researchers said it has found no major irregularities in the 2020 census results that were used to reallocate congressional seats and Electoral College votes for the next decade. In a report released Tuesday, the American Statistical Association’s task force of census experts also noted that despite concerns about interference by the Trump administration, their review uncovered ‘no evidence of anything other than an independent and professional enumeration process’ by the Census Bureau staff who took ‘corrective actions as necessary.'”
“Their assessment comes about five months after the April release of state population totals from a national head count that was upended by last-minute schedule changes because of the coronavirus pandemic and Trump officials. ‘We may have come to a different conclusion had the election come out differently and they had to put out numbers Dec. 31,’ said Nancy Potok, a former deputy Census Bureau director who co-chaired the task force, during a press briefing before the report’s release in reference to Trump officials’ failed efforts to move up the delivery of state population counts. Instead, the bureau ultimately pushed that back to run more quality checks, which Potok said gave the task force ‘a lot of confidence’ in the agency’s work.”