Realisticidealist's 2012 Precinct Map Thread

[minionofmidas]

Niihau swung to Obama from McCain. McCain had 87.5% there (only 40 votes though).

I was gonna say. Wow. What happened?

Is the one in the center the same one McCain got; I know he got one in Laie and one in that general area but forget where exactly.

[minionofmidas]

Also, RI, how are you doing the map overlay?  It looks amazing.  Nice, nice work!

Adjust the transparency of your precincts layer to 40-60%, and add a reference layer behind it (Bing roads or combined roads/imagery would probably work best).

[minionofmidas]

Obama only won 3 precincts in Jefferson County.

How in the Wide, Wide World Of Sports did he only win 3?

Because he lost by 13 points in a relatively homogenous county?

Homogenous in past voting habits, racial demographics, income too I think. Not quite so much in population density, though it depends: relative to what?

[minionofmidas]

Yowza! You're the best, realistic.

Is there any way to post that image so that we can zoom in for greater detail?

If you click on the map, it gets rather large. You should be able to see everything fairly easily. Is there a specific area you want a zoomed in shot of?

I don't know why it appeared so much smaller earlier today. I can see it supersized now, thanks!

Seems a little strange that a big city like Richmond has so few voting districts. Buffalo, NY is of a similar size and has something like 300-400 precincts.

VRA. Reviewing precinct boundaries takes DOJ approval in the South. While a formality, it's still a bother, so Southern precincts tend to remain more stable - and be huge in the suburbs.

[minionofmidas]

Oregon please.

I don't believe Oregon reports result by precinct. Last I checked Oregon votes by mail in presidential elections.

Although there is universal vote by mail, Oregon does report results by precinct

There would be literally no reason to trust their election results otherwise.

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Tin foil alert.

[minionofmidas]

I'm not sure why there's "literally no reason to trust" the results unless they report by precinct.  It's an arbitrary consolidation of ballot types for fairly technical purposes.

Well, none but "oh, I suppose they have checks and balances and people from both parties working together".
The release of local results serves to allow everybody to see that they make sense and are plausible. Nobody's going to be able to guesstimate whether Multnomah should have given Barack Obama 66% or 70% of the vote in a close statewide race to the point where he can call out a result as obvious fraud - yet that's a 15k vote difference.