re: #205 Dark_Falcon

The NPS stopped because its more trouble than its worth. If the tally is favorable to the marchers, those opposing the event say the count was inflated. If its below what was expected (absent rain or snow), then the march organizers will say it was deliberately uncounted. No matter what the estimate is, it will be subject to politically motivated attacks. The Park Service knew they couldn’t win at the game, so they gave up playing it.

Right, and it makes almost as much sense to suppress objective crowd statistics as it does to suppress the teaching of evolution.
Like religious extremism, political partisanship is also the enemy of truth and science.