'Whoa, that's not right': Georgia towns lead census appeals
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Melanie McCook
John Sell
Stan Dansby
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Smith State Prison
the Dodge State Prison
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Chester
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You had to take into account we had COVID and people weren’t allowed in or out,” Stan Dansby, Glennville’s city manager, said of the prison.A combination of the pandemic and a lack of reliable broadband for filling out the census questionnaire online may have led to discrepancies in the counts in rural Georgia, said Heather Feldman, executive director of the Georgia Mountains Regional Commission. The census challenges won’t change the number of congressional seats each state gets or the numbers used for redrawing political districts.Other communities have signaled they plan to challenge their census numbers, including several college towns and the cities of Boston and Detroit.In the case of Chester, about halfway between Atlanta and Savannah, the 2020 census said it had only 525 people, which would mark a 67% decline in the population over the decade if it were true.
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