Re: A possible unintended consequence of vote centers

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In point of fact, Larimer County is reporting only vote center aggregates.
If you hope to have some effect on the future you had better deal with
this precedent, now!

Paul C

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:03:26PM -0500, alkolwicz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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:
> -----------------
> 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.
> 
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> Paul E Condon
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