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2010-03-30 Home Front: Politix

IT Problems Put Accuracy of Census at Risk, Say Government Auditors

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Not to mention all the people filling in their race as "American" causing human data entry requirements because the form can not be machine read.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-03-30 00:23|| 2010-03-30 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 In what I took to be a little bit of irony; when I saw this article on Drudge today and clicked it, I got the following: " The server is too busy."

Repeatedly.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-03-30 00:47|| 2010-03-30 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Having the Census report to the Executive Office puts accuracy at risk.

What better way to gerrymander?

Posted by newc 2010-03-30 10:51|| 2010-03-30 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 "BUT WE WILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU SCHEDULED HEART SURGERY." (Even though you repeatedly called and sent in to the Obamacare Beauracracy a request for a flu shot.

Posted by Elmaiger Hatfield7630 2010-03-30 11:07|| 2010-03-30 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 But seriously. I have no doubt "technical diffculties" is the excuse Obama and his thugs will use to explain inaccurate Census data, that will be skewed to favor the Democrats, "the ruling party". That same excuse will be employed to explain the skewed election results in November.

Posted by Elmaiger Hatfield7630 2010-03-30 11:16|| 2010-03-30 11:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Excuse me folks,
but as a programmer and project leader, what is so effing difficult about the census? It is a counting program! Let people define themselves, count them by lowest common denominator, then roll up the totals.
Data collection may be difficult, and you may have a problem with "data hygene" (missing or incorrect data), but the IT aspects of this are pretty easy.

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-03-30 11:43|| 2010-03-30 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Frozen Al. I too am an IT person. The "problems" associated with the system is either that an incompetant socialist is managing the system or they are claiming technical difficulties while in reality they are using basic SQL statements to change the database numbers to their favor but saying that skewed database numbers were caused by those technical problems. But data transactions are simple using SQL staements and large amounts of traffic can be handled by a simple server farm. This stinks to high heaven.

Posted by Elmaiger Hatfield7630 2010-03-30 12:05|| 2010-03-30 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't there a Halliburton or Diebold subsidiary that could do this?

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-03-30 16:08|| 2010-03-30 16:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Remeber what Obama did in the very first ten days of his presidency? Take control of the Census§ And what happenned about two weeks later: the Census office subcontracted the job to Acorn! Coincidence isn't it?

Posted by JFM 2010-03-30 18:14|| 2010-03-30 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 If the main frames are IBM or who ever the vendor is, the vendor's Customer Engineers can resolve these issues promptly. Somethings not right here.

Posted by www 2010-03-30 18:47|| 2010-03-30 18:47|| Front Page Top

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