The Census Bureau urged Commerce Secretary Don Evans on Thursday not
to use adjusted results from the 2000 population count. Evans must
now weigh the recommendation from the Census Bureau, and will make the
decision next week. If the data were adjusted statistically it could
be used to redistribute and remap political district lines. William
Barron, the Bureau Director, said in a letter to Evans that he agreed
with a Census Bureau committee recommendation "that unadjusted census
data be released as the Census Bureau's official redistricting data."
Some say about 3 million or so people make up a disenfranchising
undercount. Others disagree viewing sampling as a method to "invent"
people who have not actually been counted. Politically, the stakes
are high on Evans' final decision.
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