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Originally Posted by Obadno
They wont, and there isnt a reason too frankly. The Census is one of the few things actually laid out in the constitution and it doesn't stipulate to "correct" for strange situations.
The goal is just to snapshot the population not to have a constant accurate count.
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The census is used to allocate federal funding as well. I think a decennial census is too long of a gap between population captures. The government thinks this too, which is why they came up with this estimate methodology that is prone to significant error.
The solution could be an interim mid-decade census that does not affect apportionment but can be used to update official population stats and funding allocation. I think something like this could be done through an act of Congress without requiring a constitutional amendment. But even a constitutional amendment to update the census frequency would probably be one of the least controversial updates.