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Information: Counting population(s) or taking census affects the influence that voters may have, economics and other issues of concern in society.
Census Sites:
ACA's Position on the Census Issue ACA's Position on the Census Issue: Asserts that excluding private US citizens residing abroad results in a distortion of the congressional apportionment process. (Census) http://www.aca.ch/ottocens.htm
How Stuff Works: U.S. Census How Stuff Works: U.S. Census: Defends the census, explaining some of how it works from a Census office kind of perspective. (Census) http://www.howstuffworks.com/census.htm
Census 2000 a Tool of Socialist State Building Census 2000 a Tool of Socialist State Building: Editorial comment on the premise that the US census is unconstitutional and designed to assist in expanding a socialist state. (Census) http://www.greaterthings.com/Editorial/census.htm
Census 2000 Protest Census 2000 Protest: Argues that the US census focuses too much attention on "race", essentially pitting each race against another for special government favors. (Census) http://www.webcom.com/intvoice/protest.html
Prisoners of the Census Prisoners of the Census: Criticizes how the U.S. census counts prisoners and includes factsheets, testimony, and research on how economic and political resources are allocated based on population. (Census) http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/
ACLU Legal Brief in Favor of Statistical Sampling ACLU Legal Brief in Favor of Statistical Sampling: This paper was filed to defend the effort by the Clinton administration to alter the Census results with statistical guesses at what the population count should have been. (Census) http://archive.aclu.org/court/usdcvhouse.html
Rebuke Census Racism Rebuke Census Racism: States that diversity (continental origin, national origins, and ethnicities) is literally smothered by insensitive bureaucrats who developed the labels that are used in the USA 2000 Census forms. (Census) http://www.eaif.org/sv2.htm
Census 2000 and Racial Information: Reverse Discrimination? Census 2000 and Racial Information: Reverse Discrimination?: Argues that census race data is used to allocate tax dollars for racial quota programs, which discriminates unfairly against anyone not in a politically correct group. (Census) http://www.adversity.net/special/census2000.htm
The 'race' question on the U.S. census is racist. The 'race' question on the U.S. census is racist.: Editorial arguing that the question of race on the U.S. Census is racist. (Census) http://www.sodabob.com/Constitution/Census.asp
Census 2000? Leave it Blank! Census 2000? Leave it Blank!: The author argues that a citizen should answer only the "how many residents at this address" section of the census form, including why it is a Constitutional right to do so. (Census) http://www.geocities.com/greendalek/census.html