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It takes a virtual village
Washington TImes ^ | 4/8/02 | Phil Kent and Lynn Hogue

Posted on 04/08/2002 12:41:46 AM PDT by Jean S

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Census 2000, embroiled as it was in 1999 U.S. Supreme Court litigation before the first person was ever counted, reveals several important facts about the makeup of our nation, starting with how we count our people. The high court agreed that federal statutes correctly banned the use of the flawed method known as statistical sampling for determining congressional apportionment. That same issue is back again, and this time with practical political implications.


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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: census; redistricting; statisticalsampling

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