And nearly every group or government monitoring sea piracy believes that number is seriously undercounted.

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However, as in past surveys, this release shows that certain populations were undercounted.

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In February a Los Angeles TV station tested the carb-content claims of some food manufacturers and found that several had undercounted.

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That's a big problem because if hate crimes are seriously undercounted, as he believes they are, it affects the allocation of law enforcement dollars.

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But he may struggle to convince rural voters, many of whom revere the outgoing president and who may be undercounted by the opinion polls.

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But while the agency tests whether the census has undercounted some groups, it does so only in households, not in group quarters such as prisons.

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Because the 1990 Census undercounted millions of Americans, mostly minorities, the Clinton administration proposed the sampling method as a way of ensuring a more accurate count in 2000.

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Some analysts think the census undercounted, especially among poorer Filipinos.

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Apple may be undercounted since in March 2012 China Mobile stated that there were over 15 million iPhone users on its network even though China Mobile does not sell the iPhone.

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Was Gore just supposed to concede all over again, with Democrats across the land complaining that the only reason he hadn't won was because of botched ballots, undercounted votes and the blind zeal of secretary of state Katherine Harris, co-chair of Florida's Bush campaign?

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