Lafayette census taker says she was told to enter false information in rush to close 2020 count

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https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2020/11/09/lafayette-census-taker-says-she-told-enter-false-information-rush-close-2020-count/6219129002/

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Two census takers, including one working in Lafayette, told The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited so they could close cases during the waning days of the once-a-decade national headcount.

Indiana census taker Pam Roberts said her supervisor pressured her to make up answers about households where no one was home.

Roberts, who lives in Lafayette, agreed to do it for only one day — making up information on about two dozen households — before refusing to continue the next day because she believed it was wrong. She said she entered made-up answers while in her car outside the homes since the mobile device used for data entry could track where a person was when making an entry.

“That’s not what this is about. If it’s not truthful, how can we use it?” Roberts said in an interview with The Associated Press.

At the time, in mid- to late September, census workers were drawing close to a deadline imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration to finish the count by the end of the month.

Maria Arce said her supervisor in Massachusetts offered step-by-step instructions in how to trick the system. She said she felt guilty about lying, but she did not want to disobey her supervisors, who kept repeating that they were under pressure from a regional office in New York to close cases.

“It was all a sham. I felt terrible, terrible. I knew I was lying. I knew I was doing something wrong, but they said, ‘No, no, we are closing. We have to do this,’” Arce said.

Asked about the workers’ statements to the AP, the Census Bureau said it was looking into the allegations, but the agency did not provide further details.

In Indiana, Tim Swarens, media specialist for the Census Bureau, deferred comment Monday morning to national representatives.

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So if this happens in little 'ole Lafayette, Indiana it must be happening across the country.  Yet another government institution that betrays the public's trust.  And of course the MSM has to portray it as Mr. Trump's fault.