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The Census Undercount’s Impact on Florida

Published: May 24, 2022, 10:23 a.m.

Florida’s estimated undercount was 3.5%, or what amounts to about 700,000 people. If that sounds like a lot it is, especially in the context of Congress. In the 2020 Census Florida needed only 171,000 additional residents to have gained a second seat in Congress and an additional Electoral College vote.