The Complete Count Committee includes the heads of the state Democratic and Republican parties, elected officials and civic leaders, and the director of a nonprofit launched by Stacey Abrams to ensure hard-to-count populations are tallied.

The stakes are high. The data collected in 2020 will determine each state’s share of representatives in Congress and nearly $900 billion in federal funding. The nationwide count will also trigger the redrawing of the state’s political maps.