1.   And in Queen Creek, a faulty census count has hurt farm workers who get limited medical care from a local clinic.

2.   And some Democrats just as vehemently accuse Republicans of playing racial politics by trying to block better census counts that would create more majority black and Hispanic districts.

3.   Census counts are used to create congressional districts, and minorities traditionally vote Democratic.

4.   Census counts determine how federal aid is distributed and even where schools, plants, and shopping centers are built.

5.   Capitol Hill became the initial battleground for the issue because Congress approves the money to pay for either a full census count or sampling.

6.   Cities like Fillmore and Moorpark benefited from the census count with gains in their populations.

7.   Evans had already been expected to provide the states, for purposes of drawing congressional districts, only those population figures derived from the basic census count.

8.   Galvin said his remarks last month were not to pit himself against the congressional delegation, but to urge local government officials to conduct thorough census counts.

9.   Gore referred to the ongoing controversy over whether the traditional census count, which has tended to undercount minorities, should be supplemented by statistical sampling.

10.   However, he said, efforts to reach out to Hispanics in the census count have resulted in some gains.