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Resistance to filling out the new, longer Census form goes back for at least the last two cycles. Various elements within the libertarian/anarchist community were urging the same type of monkeywrenching last time around, and were denounced by the O'Reilly/Beck/Limbaugh/Hannity crowd as paranoid, anti-American, anti-government crackpots.
Some folks object to the increasingly invasive nature of the questions (with newly-increased penalties for noncompliance). Others worry about the politicization of the Census (and since it's now under direct White House control, with ACORN doing a lot of the leg-work and promotions, they may have a point), with particular concern about its' potentially being used in politically- or racially-biased gerrymandering. The concern about ACORN is overblown, IMO, but given their recent and shameless Obama partisanship and willingness to engage in issue-specific advocacy and endorsement (in direct violation of the law as a 501 tax-exempt organization) I wouldn't be surprised at all if they -tried- to effect the Census in some way. Thankfully, ACORN seems to be almost as incompetent as they are corrupt, so this one doesn't really worry me personally.
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