Thats really interesting. So, its as I thought this question was always on the form. Was latino added along w/ the penalty? I dont understand how the govt could prosecute unless they were able to research your lineage. Even then a person could possibly mark more than one box and still be correct. Do you have to mark all boxes which apply? It seems to be another F Troop screw up so open ended they could trip anyone they pleased w/ it.
My guess is that you can answer it any way you want and there would be no penalty. Otherwise, the government would have to start maintaining a data base of bloodlines, ethnic neighborhoods, who raised you vs who gave birth, all sorts of unworkable racial/ethnic monitoring of the sort that was done by the Nazis.
How else would they be able to enforce the “veracity” of this question?