[paudio]

The ACS is a common household-individual surveys that many researchers, including myself, use regularly. It is NOT designed to target conservatives or Tea Partiers, since it's been around longer than TeaParties. They use sampling design to choose which household is picked. If they found nobody lives there, they would enter 'zero' or vacant.

For more information, see American Community Survey in Census website.

Do you have to respond to the ACS? Yes. Responding to the American Community Survey (ACS) is about helping national, tribal, state and local officials make informed decisions with timely and accurate data. Just as people are required to respond to jury duty, get a driver’s license in order to drive, pay their taxes and report their income, they also have the obligation to respond to decennial census surveys. The ACS is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.), Sections 141 and 193, and response is required by law. According to Section 221, persons who do not respond shall be fined not more than $100. Title 18 U.S.C. Section 3571 and Section 3559, in effect amend Title 13 U.S.C. Section 221 by changing the fine for anyone over 18 years old who refuses or willfully neglects to complete the questionnaire or answer questions posed by census takers from a fine of not more than $100 to not more than $5,000.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It is NOT designed to target conservatives or Tea Partiers, since it's been around longer than TeaParties.

So have IRS audits.

Does not mean they can be used to target conservatives.

[steve86]

Do you have to respond to the ACS? Yes.

Bureaucrat talking, not constitutional authority.

[Haiku Guy]

It is NOT designed to target conservatives or Tea Partiers, since it's been around longer than TeaParties.

I would agree that initially the survey was, apparently, a randomly target effort to gather data. To my mind, it is wrongheaded, because that information is none of the government's business, either in the specific or the abstract, but that's just me.

The question is, has the selection methodology been changed to target more surveys to active opponents to the current administration, specifically, FReepers. If so, that would represent a huge problem.

[fwdude]

"Responding to the American Community Survey (ACS) is about helping national, tribal, state and local officials make informed decisions with timely and accurate data."

A free market can do that 100x better - and quicker.

[nanetteclaret]

Well, first they have to prove that somebody actually got the form in order to prosecute them. Unless it is sent registered mail and someone signs for it, there is no way of knowing that it was actually delivered and the person it was addressed to actually saw it.

No one is “required” to respond to intrusive questions. After all, Hillary said she “couldn’t recall.” And Roe v. Wade was passed based on “privacy.”

[kevao]

Do you have to respond to the ACS? Yes.

My 1st edition U.S. Constitution makes no mention of this ACS. Which edition are you using?