Map: Fundraising Requests Posing as 'Census' Surveys
by Ryan Knutson and Krista Kjellman Schmidt, ProPublica - March 1, 2010
A few weeks ago we wrote about a faux "Census" survey being sent out by the Republican National Committee. We asked you to tell us if you've gotten similar mail. We've gotten about 40 responses pointing us to other examples of questionable invocations of the census and other official-sounding surveys that are actually fundraising requests.