The Washington Post’s N.C. Aizenman lays out the problems that could result from a botched 2010 census. The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau will not get the electronic hand-held devices they planned on by 2010, meaning that government employees will have to go door-to-door with pen and paper recording vital demographic information.

This information dictates Congressional representation and how some federal funds are given. It also provides a look at how America’s demographics are changing. Which means that if the census doesn’t work new immigrants are literally not counted. Check back in 2010.-MB

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