Judge acquits 89-year-old census objector

Posted October 9, 2013 1:51 pm.

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Audrey Tobias, 89, was found not guilty of refusing to fill out the 2011 census. She says she didn’t file her census because it is processed using software from U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin. Tobias and lawyer Peter Rosenthal spoke to the media after the ruling.

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