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...responsible for sending out the final questionnaires is Census Bureau Director Vincent Barabba. Now on leave from his job as director of market research at Xerox Corp., he had headed the bureau from 1973 to 1976 under the Nixon and Ford Administrations, and was brought back by Carter last June. One major problem he faces is hiring enough enumerators. Though they all are supposed to report to local offices on April 18 for three days of training, last week the bureau was still about 15% short of its recruiting goal...
Another challenge will be to count the illegal aliens. Says Barabba: "This is the real nut, probably the most difficult problem we face." Under Article I of the Constitution, the tally must include the "whole number" of persons in each state; the bureau has interpreted this provision to include the illegals...
...minority leaders' key demand is that the bureau pledge in advance to adjust its official tally if a planned postcensus sampling reveals an undercount. Barabba balks at making such a promise maintaining that "it is still an open question." One problem is that a detailed adjustment could not be ready by the Jan. 1, 1981, deadline for turning over the tally to the President. Another problem is that totals based partly on a sample could raise legal questions about whether they could be used to reapportion seats for the House of Representatives. But Barabba does not rule...
...which was passed with his active support, extended the merit system for the selection of Government workers. But Carter is allowing local Democratic organizations to recommend a large number of the 275,000 census takers. "We will ask Democratic politicians for lists of recruits, but not Republicans," says Barabba, who happens to be a Republican. Appointed originally by President Richard Nixon, he served as census director from 1973 to 1976, and was renamed to the job last June. Barabba defends the 1980 hiring process on the grounds that the jobs have always been handled on a patronage basis. He argues...
G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock calls the patronage approach "a blatant political effort to rig the count." Says he: "Allowing the political machine in Chicago to count the people in underpopulated districts is issuing a license to steal." Replies Barabba: "If there is an organized effort to rig the totals, our checking procedure will catch it." Perhaps. But, say Republicans, don't count...