A possible unintended consequence of vote centers

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am helping at a very low level in democratic party analysis project
of voting results in Colorado. For this project, we are getting from
office of SoS, computer readable voting results of 2004 election.
These finally became available in Dec 2005 (talk about a slow count!).
One thing that our lead person (Dan Hayden) has discovered is that
vote results by precinct are not available in Larimer County. Results
are only available by vote center. For the analysia project this is
something of a disappointment since precinct level results in Boulder
County had lead us to believe that we could say something about how
to do better grass-roots campaigning. But I see another issue here
that I'd like to discuss here. 

So far as I know, precinct level results are a important input to the
process of gerrymandering. Without these data, it will be more
difficult to draw voting district boundaries. 

Is this 'good' or 'bad'? For sure, it is different from the status quo.

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Paul E Condon
pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx