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I don't know the process that they use but I pinged Autumnraine as I think she works for the US Census. I know they make a certain number of attempts, ask the neighbors I believe and finally move on down the road at some point.

What I afraid will happen this time is that they won't get a high enough return of respondents with answers and at thus at some point will begin to make educated guesses. I don't like bureaucrats guessing at the number of representatives being apportioned to the Congress. Conservative areas will lose for sure imo.

I don’t like bureaucrats guessing at the number of representatives being apportioned to the Congress. Conservative areas will lose for sure imo.

And I don’t like illegals being included at all...beins as how its for apportionment of representation and all.
You are 100% right that conservatives will lose....

“What I afraid will happen this time is that they won’t get a high enough return of respondents with answers and at thus at some point will begin to make educated guesses. I don’t like bureaucrats guessing at the number of representatives being apportioned to the Congress. Conservative areas will lose for sure imo. “

You are exactly right deport. It scares me when conservatives won’t fill out the population information because that means the ones who do are lefties. WE want to be counted too, but the paranoia is going to cause many communities to lose. The number of Representatives is an important part of our Republic. I understand that the ‘only thing the constitution requires is a number, not age and name, blah blah blah’, but if you stop and think about it, do you really just want that? What’s to stop people from claiming 45 people live in this house, 72 in another and so on. I feel more comfortable actually getting information because when you just leave it to a number, the numbers will be fudged much easier. Not to conservatives benefit either.

Another thing that irks me a little is the assumption that if a person works for the Census, then they are an ACORN employee or something. That has been the fear for a long time, but I assure you that it is not the case. I would estimate 99% of the people in my district are anti-Obama, some (mostly retired) people who felt it a patriotic duty themselves to see that it was done properly. The Crew Leader in my district is the head of the Republican Party in her county.

Some of the posts here at Free Republic (and most especially at the Big Government site) are like the old game “Gossip” where speculation and fear has turned into “this happened to my friend/neighbor/cousin/etc...”