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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. | ||
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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]]. | ||
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“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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 14:56, May 20, 2009
Census 2010 will be overseen by the Obama Administration. This may be unconstitutional, because Actual Enumeration is found in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, implying that the census is the responsibility of the Legislative branch.
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.
In a blog entry, Michael Barone said the following:
“Article I (as Joseph Biden didn't know in debate) is about the legislative, not the executive branch. Hence, it is argued, the president can't substitute a sampling for the enumeration required to be done by the secretary.
“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.”
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.