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President Obama has chosen [[Robert M. Groves]] as the census director. Groves is a professor at the University of Michigan, and is known to favor sampling over the Actual Enumeration required by the Constitution.
President Obama has chosen [[Robert M. Groves]] as the census director. Groves is a professor at the University of Michigan, and is known to favor sampling over the Actual Enumeration required by the Constitution.
==Actual Enumeration==
There are several ways in which Obama might circumvent the requirement of Actual Enumeration, in order to gerrymander districts to favor his reelection. The census also affects the [[electoral college]].
There are several ways in which Obama might circumvent the requirement of Actual Enumeration, in order to gerrymander districts to favor his reelection. The census also affects the [[electoral college]].
“However, it is undoubtedly true that the president can fire the secretary of commerce for any reason, including failure to conduct the Census the way he wants the Census conducted.”
“However, it is undoubtedly true that the president can fire the secretary of commerce for any reason, including failure to conduct the Census the way he wants the Census conducted.”
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There are no checks and balances to prevent the President from manipulating the Secretary of Commerce.
==Sampling and Hot-Deck Imputation==
When he served in the census bureaus from 1990 to 1992, Robert M. Groves favored sampling, rather than Actual Enumeration. In 1999, Doc v. United States House of Representatives, 525 U.S. 316 (1999) ruled that sampling cannot be used in redistricting during a census.
This ruling against sampling was a step in the right direction, but other techniques which lend themselves to fraud still exist. Hot-Deck Imputation replaces missing data with data taken from other results of the same set.
[[Category:Census]]
[[Category:Census]]