SAUGUS – While there has been a recent spark of interest in the 2008 census, not everyone has been keen on returning their forms.Therefore, Town Clerk Joanne Rappa will issue a second mailing over the next few weeks to over 2,000 residents who have yet to respond to the first mailing.Rappa and her staff have been working hard this year trying to update the town’s census, which many contend hasn’t been correct for decades.According to the Board of Registrar, the census count stands at 25,964, an increase of over 2,300 from last year at this time. But many town officials have argued that the population is closer to 30,000.To bring the records up to date, the clerk’s office has been painstakingly comparing every record in its office with information provided by the Building Department, Assessors Department, Water Department, dog licenses, marriage licenses, newly recorded birth certificates, Board of Appeals records and more to make sure that every household is included in the census mailings.However, if a household has been inadvertently left off the mailing list, they can call the Clerk’s Office at 781-231-4101 to correct the situation.According to additional Board of Registrars figures, the current population number includes over 2,250 “inactive” voters who have not returned their census in recent years. The board is actually considering posting the names and addresses of those who don’t return the 2008 census in the hopes of outing them to friends and neighbors. The idea is to persuade them to return the form.Any resident on the inactive list, who doesn’t correct the situation by returning their census, will be deleted and won’t be able to vote in the November presidential election.The deletion is not taken lightly, however. According to state law, it is not necessarily easy to delete a voter from the town lists unless the registrars have been officially notified the voter has died; the registrars have received official notification the voter has registered in another community; the registrars have received a written confirmation from the voter that they have moved to another community; or the voter has not responded to the confirmation mailing and has not voted in the next two biennial state elections following the mailing of such notice.”Hopefully, this will clarify the misconception of individuals who peruse the resident listing book and inform the Clerk’s Office that someone has moved, but have been neglected to be deleted them from the Town’s census,” read a letter issued by the board.Board members said while many people seem to be interested in the goings on with the census, no one from the public has attended any of their meetings, which has resulted in some misinformation being bandied about.If residents have any questions, concerns, or wish to obtain information that may or may not be passed on to others, they should contact the Town Clerk’s Office or the Board of Registrars for accurate and official information.And if you have not yet turned in your census form, the board is all but begging you to do so.