The Wall Street Journal ran an article on August 9 regarding the upcoming 2010 Census.  This Census will determine the number of Congressional Representatives for each state and the number of Electoral College votes.  That is the Constitutional purpose of the Census.

The upcoming Census plans to count all people in the country, legally or illegally.  This will increase the number of Representatives and Electoral College votes in states with large numbers of illegal aliens and lessen the actual representation of states without large illegal alien populations. 

According to the article:

“The 2010 census will use only the short form. The long form has been replaced by the Census Bureau’s ongoing American Community Survey. Dr. Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau’s Immigration Statistics Staff, told us in a recent interview that the 2010 census short form does not ask about citizenship because “Congress has not asked us to do that.””

I am very uncomfortable with the scenario I see playing out in the 2010 Census.  Remember the voter fraud perpetrated by ACORN in 2008 [The Dallas Morning News (along with many other news outlets) reported that ACORN had registered the Dallas Cowboys football team starting line-up to vote in Nevada].  The potential for voter fraud and unjustified changes in the Electoral College is enormous.  If you look at the map below, you realize that some of the states with the highest illegal populations are states that are very likely to vote Democrat.  If you give more Electoral College votes to these states based on a large illegal population, you are essentially allowing people here illegally to vote in the presidential election and depriving other states of equal representation for their citizens.  (The map came from a Power Line article posted today about a Gallop Poll of conservative and liberal views in each state.)