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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
"...OK...will apply and let you know how I make out applying for this NH federal census-taker position..."
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I had that job, but in Miami.
Warning:
I lost 20 pounds, got fit, got a tan, learned some Spanish, earned months of bucks and participated in an important event conducted every decade.
Over time, however, a number of troubling things emerged:
1) At the halfway point, we had a second meeting for any questions or problems with the count. I had
physically collected about 50% of my count. The similar region abutting mine was allotted to an elderly New York gentleman, who advised me that he had participated in earlier Census counts.
At this point, I started to panic, because
his count was finished!
I also noted his "hospital pallor". 
Hmmm. Hmmm.
2) The Census eventually apportions Representatives to the House of Representatives; however, the Census' "final count" is
estimated!
3) The same source
above reports that the count can be fabricated by Census-takers who can skew the count by a million or more.
How? "The Curbstone Guess".
4) I watched with alarm when this year's Census was transferred to the
custody of The White House!
(Later rescinded).
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"The larger debate prompted seven former Census directors...to sign a letter last year supporting a bill to turn the Census Bureau into an independent agency after the 2010 Census. 'It is vitally important that the American public have confidence that the census results have been produced by an independent, non-partisan, apolitical, and scientific Census Bureau,'..."
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In short, Census-takers will have both responsibility and an opportunity:
1) Do the job
right will add or subtract Representatives apportioned to each state.
2) Doing the job
wrong will transfer power and money to Washington.
Even while employed as a census taker, I had no idea what effect "curbstone counts" could do to US citizen-taxpayers.
