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"When he was the bureau's associate director, Groves recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to make up for an undercount of roughly 5 million people, many of them minorities in dense urban areas who tend to vote for Democrats. " <ref>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97AG7201&show_article=1&catnum=0</ref> Thankfully, this "political tampering" was overruled by Republican Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher.
"When he was the bureau's associate director, Groves recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to make up for an undercount of roughly 5 million people, many of them minorities in dense urban areas who tend to vote for Democrats. " <ref>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97AG7201&show_article=1&catnum=0</ref> Thankfully, this "political tampering" was overruled by Republican Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher.
Since Groves last served in the census bureau, ''Doc v. United States House of Representatives'', 525 U.S. 316 (1999) ruled that sampling cannot be used in redistricting during a census. Although Groves claims he will not use sampling, it is likely he will attempt to use other tricks in 2010.
Since Groves last served in the census bureau, ''Doc v. United States House of Representatives'', 525 U.S. 316 (1999) ruled that sampling cannot be used in redistricting during a census. Although Groves states he will not use sampling, it is likely he will attempt to use other tricks in 2010. For example, hot-deck imputation is an unregulated technique with power to significantly change results, depending on how it is applied.
"This is an incredibly troubling selection that contradicts the administration’s assurances that the census process would not be used to advance an ulterior political agenda," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97AG7201&show_article=1&catnum=0</ref>
"This is an incredibly troubling selection that contradicts the administration’s assurances that the census process would not be used to advance an ulterior political agenda," said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97AG7201&show_article=1&catnum=0</ref>