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Rep. Chaffetz on Fox News: Fear the Census

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iceweasel10/10/2009 10:36:12 am PDT

re: #10 Sharmuta

Does he have documentation to support this claim?

No.

he’s basing it on this:

Speaking on “Studio B” this afternoon, Chaffetz responded to recent Senate testimony from a GAO official who said it was “possible” that improper fingerprinting procedures at the Census Bureau led to the hiring of somewhere around 200 temporary census workers “with extensive criminal records.” The official said the bureau had dismissed 750 of 1,800 temporary workers it hired last year with criminal records after reviewing details of the workers’ cases.

He’s using the fact that the system worked last year — i.e., people with criminal backgrounds were fired — as a reason to claim that the system is broken, and that the hundreds of thousands of census workers working or hired now are criminals.