[adorno]

...she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter registration efforts last year, will be part of the Census Bureau's door-to-door information collection efforts.

I wonder...

Would it be against the law to refuse to fill out the census from or answers questions from someone who is from "ACORN"?

If not against the law, then I would suggest that people insist on knowing what organization a census worker represents. It must be insisted that census workers wear very prominent ID tags which lists their names and the organization through which they're working.

Then, whenever a worker from "ACORN" knocks on your door, you have the right to refuse to answer any of his/her questions and you could insist the census bureau send somebody from any other organization not related to ACORN.

[metmom]

If not against the law, then I would suggest that people insist on knowing what organization a census worker represents. It must be insisted that census workers wear very prominent ID tags which lists their names and the organization through which they're working.

There's nothing stopping some scammer from faking that they are from the *census bureau* and getting copy of the form online, coming knocking on your door and asking those personal questions anyway.

I don't care who he says he is, where he says he's from, what kind of official looking badges or documents he shows me. How do I know they're real?

So I'll tell them that I'm not answering any questions from a stranger no matter who he says he represents because I don't know if he's genuine.