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Who Counts?: The next U.S. census chief wants to count people who aren't there. The acting director wants to count people who shouldn't be here. And Acorn will help do the counting.Back when he was the Census Bureau's associate director of statistical design, Robert M. Groves, nominated to be the next director of the bureau, recommended that the 1990 census be statistically adjusted to correct an alleged undercount of minorities in urban areas — areas that tend to vote heavily Democratic. Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher overruled him, saying the use of "statistical sampling," as it's known, was a form of...

<p>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.</p>