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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.
"When Groves was associate director at the Census Bureau he recommended statistical sampling to make up for the projected “undercount” of 5 million people in 2000. These essentially made-up people – intended to represent the undercounted population – are assigned a gender, race, income, and generalized region based on the Census Bureau’s formula." <ref>http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48234</ref>
When sampling is used to correct an undercount, the Census Bureau must create a formula to determine the characteristics of the "made-up" individuals. "How you structure the formula affects the results. It's possible a party in power might determine the desired result first, then determine the sampling formula needed to achieve it." <ref>http://www.blnz.com/news/2009/04/13/Counting_Illegal_Aliens_6141.html</ref>
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>
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>