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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 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.

Since Groves last served in the census bureau, ''Doc v. United States House of Representatives'', 525 U.S. 316 (1999) ruled that "statistical sampling cannot be used to apportion congressional seats, but can be used for other purposes, such as legislative redistricting and, of course, doling out dollars." <ref>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889793,00.html</ref>

 

"In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the nominee, Robert M. Groves, said he supported the view of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who oversees the Census Bureau and has said there are no plans to use statistical sampling in the 2010 count."<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/us/politics/16census.html</ref>

 

Although Groves states he will not use sampling, it is not inconceivable that he could 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.

==Criticism of Groves' Nomination==

==Criticism of Groves' Nomination==