[Geowanking] us voting precinct shape data

[neuhausr at bitstream.net]

The Census is starting to gather revisions to voting district data in
preparation for the 2010 Census and redistricting, but I doubt that'll be
released anytime soon.  It appears the 2007 TIGER files still have the
2000 VTDs.

For the election monitoring idea referred to in the blog post, it really
seems like polling places would be a better way to go than precincts,
anyway.  Have to see if it actually gets going (it has some chance,
Google's pushing it), but the Voting Information Project is hoping to
offer XML feeds of election/polling place data from states.

http://www.votinginfoproject.org/

Also, I saw this map of election problems in Zimbabwe a few months ago,
seems the same sort of idea.

http://www.sokwanele.com/map/all_breaches

Best, Brad

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> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 04:32:52 -0700
> From: "S Wotherspoon" <swotherspoon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] us voting precinct shape data
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> The geography of voting precincts changes at each redistricting (every 10
> years) and the decision making takes place at the municipal level. There
> are
> very few public data sets of precinct data because of this, and the
> federal
> gov. definitely doesn't keep track of the geographies. Some counties may
> provide precinct geographic files to the public and the Registrar of
> Voters
> is the source.
>
> --Stella
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Cory Forsyth <geowanking at corybantic.us>
> wrote:
>
>> Does the US Gov't provide shape data for the voting precincts?
>> Been thinking about that ever since reading this blog post about
>> real-time
>> monitoring of election voting booth conditions:
>>
>> http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/07/popular-monitoring-of-popular-elections.html
>>
>> -Cory
>>
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