Robert M. Groves, nominated to be the next director of the bureau, recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to correct an alleged undercount of minorities in urban areas — areas that tend to vote heavily Democratic. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher overruled him, saying the use of "statistical sampling," as it's known, was a form of "political tampering."
Statistical sampling is a technique akin to polling. You select what you consider a representative sample and extrapolate your findings over the general population.
The problem is that Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution forbids it. It requires an "actual enumeration" of all Americans every 10 years, not a guess based on statistical sampling. That means counting real, live, breathing people.
The Founding Fathers weren't fools. Sampling techniques have changed, but human nature has not... [snip]
The next U.S. census chief also wants to count people who aren't there, or are here when they shouldn't be.
And Acorn will help do the counting...
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