The Census Bureau paper regarding non-citizen voting in the 2020 election lists no authors.
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Bulwark TakesAug 21, 2026
Multiple sources state the Census Bureau's 2020 noncitizen-voting brief lists no authors, and the claim matches the passage's point. Wired reports that documents name contributors, and a later source says the Census Bureau's own emails identify authors, but the published paper itself does not name them.
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… Let's show this paper, Matt, if you can do it. Okay, so this, this little slide here actually, on the left side, is the new, new publication that came out. On the right side is just another recent publication. One thing that I wanted to highlight is that there are no authors listed on this paper. That's why we have a little question mark there. On the right side, you can see who wrote it. That's because no one employed at the Census Bureau wants to put their name to this stinking pile of garbage, which is pseudoscience, um, cloaked completely in, …
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Supports. NPR reports the seven-page Census report 'doesn't say who at the bureau did the comparing' and that it 'doesn't mention which division produced it.'[2]
Supports. Multiple outlets describe the report as 'unauthored' and note that it lists no authors, with experts calling the missing authorship glaring and atypical for Census reports.[3][4][5][6][7]
Supports. Wired quotes Census Bureau associate director John Abowd saying it is 'highly unusual for the US Census Bureau to release research report even one blog length without explicitly naming the authors.'[8]
Context. Wired says documents it reviewed show contributors including a named Census official, but these come from outside the published paper and are not a named author list on the report itself.[8]
Context. The Census Bureau's own publication page for the brief (dated 2026-08-18) excerpt shown does not display an author list, though the excerpt is partial.[1]
Sources
8 sources: 1 primary, 1 tier 2, 6 not rated
- 1Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election, A Beginning Analysiscensus.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Census report on noncitizen voting has ties to Trump groupnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is touting on ...kpbs.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Experts raise alarms over Census Bureau report Trump is ...wnyc.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Trump Says Report Proves Noncitizens Voted In 2020 [Op-Ed]newsone.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Trump Is Using a New, Highly Unusual Census Bureau Report to ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Experts skewer new Trump administration analysis ...newsfromthestates.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8A US Census Report on Noncitizen Voting Used Bad Data to Reach Faulty Conclusionswired.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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