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[quote=Anonymous]Op here - [b]***We need to hold Congress men and women accountable for selling out our civil liberties relating to the ACS Census survey - Vote for only those congressional leaders who are looking out to protect your privacy rights. ***  Contact your Senators and Congress members today and tell them to re-write the ACS survey in a way that does not sell out your basic right to keep your personal information private!***
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Found the following info online regarding all irrelevant questions that shouldn't be asked on ACS survey:

The number of questions in the decennial census has varied widely since the first in 1790, where census takers logged the name, gender, and race or each member of a household, to 2000, where a multi-page form with dozens of questions was sent to one out of every six households. In 2010, the Census Bureau trimmed the questionnaire to just the basics: name, gender, race, and ethnicity or each person, and whether the dwelling was owned, rented, or "occupied without payment of rent." A more detailed list of questions, called the [b]American Community Survey (ACS)[/b], [i]is sent to selected households[b] in addition to the shorter headcount forms and in non-decennial years[/b] to allow the Bureau to do statistical sampling. According to the Census Bureau, about 3 million households are selected to receive the ACS each year.[/i]

The law requires, in the case of both the decennial census and the ACS, that all households that get a form must fill it out in its entirety, under penalty. Generally speaking, the Census Bureau is not interested in levying the fine, and prefers to gather the data. If a survey is not returned, the Census can follow up by phone or with a personal visit. There is, however, the threat of a penalty for non-response. The current penalty is $100 for failure to fill out the census forms.

[b]The authority of the Congress to conduct the census in whatever way it wishes, [/b]and thus to require that the forms be filled out is found in the Constitution itself, which notes:

[The Census] shall be made ... in such Manner as [Congress] shall by Law direct.

The Congress is also authorized to ask various questions in the census aside from the basic headcount by virtue of this clause and by virtue of the Necessary and Proper Clause.

Advice to leave the form blank or to fail to fill it in may actually bring more of the government into your life than you want — as noted above, unfiled and incomplete forms will be followed-up upon by actual census workers, either in person or by telephone.

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