U.S. Probe Finds No Need to Redo Santa Ana Census

A Census Bureau review of 15 local offices cited by the head of a congressional oversight committee for a possible recount has ended without finding any anomalies, the bureau’s director announced Friday.

Santa Ana, East Los Angeles and Commerce were among the offices that Rep. Dan. Miller (R-Fla.) suspected of possible fraud because of how quickly they completed their work. The areas have large minority and immigrant communities, which traditionally have been difficult to count.

But intensive advertising and outreach helped boost the response among minorities and immigrants, census officials and community advocates have said.

“Nothing new came out of the re-review we conducted this week,” bureau director Kenneth Prewitt said Friday in Arlington, Va.

Prewitt also criticized the House of Representatives staff report containing the allegations, saying it contained “serious errors.”

But Miller spokesman Chip Walker defended the report. “Since we released our letter and our analysis, there have been more news accounts independent of the subcommittee’s work where census enumerators say there was a fraud.”