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28 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
New: We obtained complaints the Commerce Department’s Office of the Inspector General received about fraud, waste, & abuse related to the enumeration of the Census.
americanoversight.org/document/comme…
On September 30, 2020, a confidential complainant stated that while upper-class areas had been heavily enumerated, the [redacted] have been ignored.
The complainant also noted that when entering a survey for an individual that identifies as Hispanic or Latino, enumerators are directed to a second page that asks questions regarding immigration status and place of origin.
In November, an individual filed a complaint that “their [redacted] repeatedly told them to falsify census data repeatedly as operations were winding down, so that office could complete more cases...
”The complainant was told answers at an address they should say that one person lives there and mark the respondent did not want to answer any other questions.”
In another complaint from Sept. 2020, a confidential complainant stated that [redacted] instructed enumerators to submit guesses for the number of residents in a unit to close out cases. They state this would be fraudulently closing cases.
These complaints provide more detail on many issues with the 2020 census that have been previously reported.

We’ve been investigating political interference in the 2020 census. Learn more here:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

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