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U.S. Army soldiers board a bus in January 2020 at Fort Bragg, N.C., one of the military bases that will likely see population boosts in their 2020 census counts due to a change to how troops deployed abroad were counted. Chris Seward/AP
Tens of thousands of U.S. service members who were temporarily deployed abroad last year could help shift the balance of power in Congress and the Electoral College toward states with military installations after the release of 2020 census results.
Approximately 97,000 troops were serving stints overseas on Census Day April 1, 2020 Pentagon spokesperson Lisa Lawrence tells NPR. And for last year s national tally, the Census Bureau followed a new policy that counted those deployed troops as residents of the areas from which they were assigned away.
Why Deployed Troop Counts Are A Wildcard In 2020 Census Results
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U.S. Army soldiers board a bus in January 2020 at Fort Bragg, N.C., one of the military bases that will likely see population boosts in their 2020 census counts due to a change to how troops deployed abroad were counted.
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Tens of thousands of U.S. service members who were temporarily deployed abroad last year could help shift the balance of power in Congress and the Electoral College toward states with military installations after the release of 2020 census results.
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