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ROSENBROCK: Anybody else? <br /> LUL Yeah, I'm just curious, is the population count broken out by age at all? <br /> ROSENBROCK: The block population base has got general data attached to it. That <br /> would be race, I believe age, within ranges, right? So, 18 and below, and 25 to 18. It's <br /> very general with the demographic information. Cause it's basically only to be used for <br /> redistricting and based on the confidentiality of the people who have submitted the data, <br /> we don't include that in the database, in the population database. It's just basic, raw <br /> numbers. <br /> LUL No, I understand. Just because we have in this island so many retirees and so on, <br /> but concentrated in different places, the voting population, as opposed to the total <br /> population, could be varied district by district. <br /> ROSENBROCK: Oh, yes. Yes. We might get sent that data—it's in there. It just it's <br /> in ranges. See, you don't want to be able to identify any minority group, or target group, <br /> with the redistricting data. All you want to do with the redistricting data is redistrict. <br /> And, if you have block counts and you have one Chinese person in the block, then that <br /> pretty much identifies that person's information. So, we don't attach anything more than <br /> the count and I think there's a general reference, and I think maybe by Census tract of the <br /> ages. <br /> HUSTACE: Mr. Chair if I may? <br /> KOSSOW: Go ahead. <br /> HUSTACE: Mr. Rosenbrock, could you speak at all to the—any concerns of the data <br /> that you might have? The integrity of the data, as we've all witnessed over the last year <br /> in concerns with the Census being collected and if there's any sort of expeditious delivery <br /> of the data if there are concerns about that too. You alluded to a particular State suing the <br /> Federal government(Yes.) for delivery of that data. Could you speak to just the overall <br /> integrity of the data that you believe to be there? <br /> ROSENBROCK: Well, I think the problem existed when the former administration <br /> wanted to determine if they could remove non-citizens from the data. And, I think maybe <br /> the Census Bureau, because the guy who runs it is appointed, pushed it on down the line <br /> but that was going to be the way they went and then the Supreme Court told them, you <br /> can't take those folks out. And, so now they're rushing to put those folks back in, and <br /> make sure the data is more representative of what the former administration was wanting. <br /> Now, Dwayne and I had this problem back in 2001. There were several folks who <br /> wanted to have non-resident aliens removed from the data. And, uh, we went down to <br /> at that time it was IMS—and we asked the guy, how do we locate these people. And, he <br /> said, I don't know. You know, they're not—first of all, if they are undocumented, <br /> they're undocumented. And, second of all, if they have a green card, they can go <br /> 22 <br />