2010 Census Counting Homeless People Twice?

[Lady Liberty]

Human Events
Is 2010 Census Counting Homeless People Twice?
by Terence P. Jeffrey
06/10/2010

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37423

During the census counting of "targeted non-sheltered outdoor locations" known to frequently contain homeless people, census workers were given 2 "peculiar" instructions: With a homeless person, they did not need the name or date of birth. Also, even if the homeless person reported having already been counted, the census workers were instructed to recount that person anyway.

So, is the 2010 census counting some homeless people twice? I would say that has to be occurring with those instructions. Isn't it odd they want so much information from people with fixed residences but do not want any identifying information for homeless people?

The article says:
"When deviating from established procedures, enumerators appeared to follow a more common-sense approach to reducing the risk of duplicate records," said the IG report. "However, this risk remains great for individual records created during SBE. We have not reviewed the process Census will use to remove duplicate records for enumerations that were simply based on direct observation of race, gender, age or ethnicity, and in which no birth date or name was provided."

and it also states:
Robert Goldenkoff of the Government Accountability Office explained why Census accuracy is important. "Data from the census -- a constitutionally mandated effort -- are used to apportion seats in the Congress, redraw congressional districts, help allocate more than $400 billion in federal aid to state and local governments, and redraw local political boundaries," he said.

"Precision is critical," he said, "because, in some cases, small differences in population totals could potentially impact apportionment, redistricting decisions or both."


From the information in this article, it seems that the Census will have inaccurate numbers and data - despite the huge amount of taxpayer money spent! It also appears that the numbers will be whatever the administration wants them to be since they can play with the number of homeless people for their own advantage.

What a transparent administration - transparently corrupt! They couldn't make it any more obvious unless they took out a full page color ad in the NY Times (using tax payer money)!! And mentioned ACORN by name....