Census bureau hosed? Redistricting implications?

[rurallib]

Great post on DailyKos concerning yet another broken bureaucracy. Why it matters:
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The quality of the nation’s democracy depends on the census, because the numbers are used to decide the number of Congressional seats from each state and hence the number of votes each state has in the Electoral College. It’s hard to ignore the impression of partisan motives in policies that hobble the census, because an inaccurate census invariably undercounts out-of-the-mainstream groups not typically aligned with Republicans.
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This comment really brings it home:
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* Oh christ. This is NOT incompetence guys (2+ / 0-)

the redistricting portion of this diary was a wake up call. Why? Because the Republican Party did the same thing in Texas a few years ago. The redistricting was so ridiculous that Democrats actually refused to come to the capitol for a whole month.

John Mccain: No benefits for our troops

by Last Years Man on Mon Jun 23, 2008 at 05:35:59 AM PDT
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/23/62635/5625/523/540531

[norepubsin08]

1. This is seriously importmant

It changes boundries of congressinal districts, could mean less Democratic representatives in future congresses and also the most noticible: a shift in the congressional representatives assigned to each state, which changes it's sum of electoral votes come every election year. On a day to day basis, under-counting, or over counting or any other manipulation usually deprives those most mariginalized and in need of the governments compassion from receiving the aid and funding that they should be allocated.