Census forms with a citizenship question are being mailed to residents

[SHRED]

Census forms with a citizenship question are being mailed to residents, but they’re only a test
Test could spark confusion in wake of Supreme Court ruling, experts say

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/16/census-forms-with-a-citizenship-question-are-being-mailed-to-residents-but-theyre-only-a-test/

[Iliyah]

1. Media as well as sane

politicians needs to notify USA's citizens that this is bullshit and not the actual census forms.

As usual, t-rump's administration with criminal Barr breaking laws and rules, orders and the Constitution.

They truly believe that are above any laws.

Votes them out!

[guillaumeb]

2. Obviously the GOP stategists wish to prove their thesis that including the question

depresses minority turnout and response to the Census.

[elleng]

3. 'Almost a quarter-million households are getting formal questionnaires

from the U.S. Census Bureau that include a controversial citizenship question, despite a Supreme Court ruling earlier this month temporarily barring its inclusion in the 2020 count.

The mailers are part of a test to see what impact the question could have on response rates. Some already have been delivered to households in the Bay Area, where cities and counties were among the first to join the fight to stop the Trump Administration from asking a citizenship question.'

Another roughly quarter-million households will receive surveys that don’t include the question. The trial run is intended to help the agency “fine-tune” how it contacts households that don’t respond to the census and determine who to target with an outreach campaign ahead of the 2020 count.

But why are federal officials still testing the impact of a question that won’t be asked, which some experts fear will spark confusion and fear, particularly among immigrants.'

[onecaliberal]

4. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK.

[scarytomcat]

5. If they are trying to prove return rates will be affected

Don't answer the question or don't fill it out at all.

[unblock]

6. They don't need the question in the real form if there's enough fear of it.

If people fear the question, they may evade the enumerators, or citizens will lie about non-citizen relatives living with them.

Thus resulting in under-counting immigrants.

Mission accomplished.