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Bureau of the Census. in its efforts to accommodate many special interest groups. has greatly overextended the original constitutional purpose of the census. In a recent article. the Wall Street Journal stated that "all manner of bureaucrats. businessmarket analysts. academic researchers. and political axgrinders have gotten their hands on the census questionnaire to ask about matters of parochial interest." The cost of this overzealous information hunt will be $1 billionfour times what it cost in The excessive number of questions can be excused on the basis that it will provide better information about ourselves in order that we can make better decisions regarding our future. However. it appears that the Bureau of the Census is going too far in attempting to include millions of illegal aliens in the total census. This violation of the constitutional principle of "one personone vote" will have farreaching repercussions both politically and economically. These repercussions were summed up in the article which states: -Yet big bucks are at stake.