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2020 Census 'listers’ have to verify millions of addresses. Look for them in your neighborhood.
Philadelphia Enquirer ^

Posted on 08/22/2019 9:56:21 AM PDT by catnipman

Starting next week and continuing into October, you might see people carrying laptops walking through your neighborhood and knocking on doors. They’re what the Census Bureau calls “listers” — census workers charged with making sure the bureau has a complete list of all addresses as it prepares for its massive population count next year.

It’s the first major field operation of the 2020 Census.

Starting next Monday, Aug. 19, listers will begin verifying the remaining 35% of addresses that need double-checking, using maps and a list of known addresses on a laptop. Mostly, they will be checking to see whether a basement was turned into an apartment, new housing was built, someone is living in a trailer on a property, or some other new or unconventional living arrangement exists

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2020census; census; electoralcollege; faithlesselectors; listers; nationalpopularvote; npv; paping; pennsylvania; philadelphia
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We just had a "lister" come to the front door a few minutes ago. Weird, because we live in an upper-end, single-family neighborhood that's been established for nearly 60 years, so seems unlikely our address wasn't one of the 65% easily verified by public online databases and maps. Maybe it was because we were un-cooperative last census, filling in only the number of adults who were resident (myself and Mrs. catnipman).

At any rate, it was Mrs. catnipman who answered the door and the "lister" asked if she had our address correct, and Mrs. catnipman said yes, and then the "lister" asked if anyone was living here illegally in our basement (we don't have one) or "out back" (nothing back there but a barn we use as an equipment shed, but maybe they saw the barn on a satellite image). At any rate, Mrs. catnipman said no and shut the door, refusing to answer any more questions.

BTW, it IS extremely important that all legal voting-age adults be counted so that House districts are apportioned correctly amongst the states, though the rest of the data they want I personally could care less about ...

1 posted on 08/22/2019 9:56:21 AM PDT by catnipman
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To: catnipman

I used to work on this project for the Census Bureau back in the day.

There is no “pattern” as to what is verified and what is not—any neighborhood or country road could have a new mother in law apartment, trailer etc added...regardless of local laws, ordinances, or covenants.


2 posted on 08/22/2019 10:00:33 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: catnipman
2020 Census 'listers’ have to verify millions of addresses. Look for them in your neighborhood.

Does the writer want us to look for census 'listers', or for addresses?

More proof that English is not a prerequisite for journalism school.

3 posted on 08/22/2019 10:01:18 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: catnipman

Maybe it’s just me and how skeptical I am these days...but I’m kinda thinking you had a fake-lister. I might be vigilant and watchful the next night or two.


4 posted on 08/22/2019 10:01:49 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: catnipman

Anecdotal info for anyone who is interested:

My neighbor was hired to work for the Census. She said that out of 15 people who were in her group, only 5 made it through drug and background checks. She also said she didn’t know how some of the people who were hired were going to be able to do the job, as they weighed over 300 pounds and could barely walk.

They are paid $19 an hour.


5 posted on 08/22/2019 10:12:22 AM PDT by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: catnipman

Have some fun, turn the hose on them.


6 posted on 08/22/2019 10:18:11 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: pepsionice

A barking dog in the background is always a good idea...along with hints about how hard he is to control... :-)


7 posted on 08/22/2019 10:24:26 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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“BTW, it IS extremely important that all legal voting-age adults be counted so that House districts are apportioned correctly amongst the states, though the rest of the data they want I personally could care less about ... “


Not in blue states. Any FReepers in states like CA, IL, NJ, NY, etc. should report 1 person in their household, to offset all of the illegals that the Dems/Leftists are trying to count so as to give their side more House seats and Electoral Votes.


8 posted on 08/22/2019 10:35:19 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Past the locked gate. The signs that read:
“NO SOLICITATION OF ANY KIND”, “DO NOT ENTER”, “NO TRESPASSING”, “NO ENTRY WITHOUT A WARRANT, this includes YOU!” signs
Past the closer sign that reads in 4 languages:
“DON”T COME CLOSER OR I WILL SHOOT”.
With a final sign that reads:
“DON’T YOU DARE KNOCK ON THE DOOR UNLESS I INVITED YOU”.
and then they will ring the bell?

Don’t think I have much to worry about.


9 posted on 08/22/2019 10:36:29 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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I saw a sign a while back that read:

“If you can read this sign, you are within range”.

Rural area.


10 posted on 08/22/2019 10:40:20 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: Macoozie
You forgot the doormat...
11 posted on 08/22/2019 10:52:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: catnipman

“BTW, it IS extremely important that all legal voting-age adults be counted so that House districts are apportioned correctly amongst the states”

ONLY if you live in a red state.

If you live in a blue state you might want to consider avoiding these people.


12 posted on 08/22/2019 10:54:52 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: cgbg

I worked on the 1990 census from summer 88 through fall 1990. It was terrific for me. We were remapping everything and verifying addresses, etc. I had been working catch as catch can and this job got me caught up on everything. I worked very fast compared to the college students and retirees who were most of the rest and I did it on a 55 mpg motorcycle while getting the same mileage money as the old guy in the Cadillac. Come the count itself, again I worked far faster than the others and when bonuses started being offered because it was dragging so badly I got the max bonuses possible. I could do a hundred addresses in the time that it took Joe College to do 6. Finally I was put in the ghetto sections of Tallahassee and Fort Walton to clean up the areas that everyone else was afraid to enter and then I was put up in a hotel for a week to work the phones to prod offices all over the state to get their asses in gear and to confirm items that had questions. I was sorry to see it all end. When it did I went fishing (commercial, that is.)


13 posted on 08/22/2019 11:00:06 AM PDT by arthurus (dfn)
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To: pepsionice

This will be super interesting if they come through my clearly signed gate.

Will they ask the Dobes for their names, I wonder, or just be screaming?


14 posted on 08/22/2019 11:07:23 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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I only have this:

I never get solicitors.

Well, except for that one guy "Selling electricity" who just sashayed into the yard, uninvited.

Seven came tearing out the back door to where he was wandering around.

Imagine the rest

15 posted on 08/22/2019 11:13:14 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: catnipman
A lister verifying Democrat voters


16 posted on 08/22/2019 11:17:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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To: catnipman

This is a dangerous job. Not only because of illegals who don’t want to be listed, and the paranoid mentally ill, but the presence of vicious attack animals. In the last census in far West Texas, a woman lister was attacked as she walked up the steps to a mobile home…by the family’s guard javelina. She died of her injuries.


17 posted on 08/22/2019 11:20:14 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: arthurus

My wife is currently out of work, so I’m going to recommend she check with the census folks about job availability in our area.


18 posted on 08/22/2019 11:27:37 AM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
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To: catnipman

these are just made up jobs from the government. Like most of them.


19 posted on 08/22/2019 11:55:53 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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a javelina? soon to be the next therapy pet on a plane.


20 posted on 08/22/2019 11:58:07 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is????)
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