RE: A possible unintended consequence of vote centers

["alkolwicz@xxxxxxxxx" <alkolwicz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul

In our opinion it is vital that precinct level reporting be the norm. 
Also, precinct results must include the early, absentee, and provisional
votes.  Finally, over and under votes by race, by precinct must be
reported.  

Precinct results are the way that political parties allocate delegates to
their assemblies.  The precinct is the basic unit of organization of
political communities.  Without the precinct, the community is weakened. 
The STATE and MEGA-INTERESTS take over where the community is destroyed.

We are working for the preservatin of the precinct as the organizational
unit of representative government.  We have not heard of any social benefit
that comes from destroying the precinct.

Al

Al Kolwicz
CAMBER
AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx 

Original Message:
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From: Paul E Condon pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:33:44 -0700
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: A possible unintended consequence of vote centers


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.

-- 
Paul E Condon
pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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