Thanks to Eric Nyman for pointing out that the Gubernatorial pages were broken. I’ve fixed these. I also noticed that the javascript mouse-over maps for the 2000 general election summary page wasn’t functioning. This is also fixed.

Today, I updated (finally!) the 2000 Voter Registration and Turnout data and maps. Tennessee data is still not correct, though as the numbers are from December 1 and not prior to the November 7 election.
Registration data tends to be very suspect in my eyes. Differences between active and inactive (or suspense – depending on state), when and how voter rolls are purged, etc. tend to lead to significant inaccuracies. For example, Wyoming had 220,012 voters registered for 2000 and 218,351 votes cast (including the 4,625 (2.1%) votes cast as write-ins for Ralph Nader) – a whopping 99.3% voter turnout!

The main site pages have been updated again (although you should not see much difference) to improve efficiency of database maintenance. Please let me know if you find any problems, broken links, or get connection errors. I also made some minor updates to the new List of Presidents, adding party labels as suggested by some feedback.

I received some feedback in a couple of survey entries that visitors were looking for a simple list of the Presidents from Washington to Bush. I have therefore added a List of Presidents from 1789 through Present . A link to the list is located on the Election Information page in the History section.

I have received some great feedback from the survey! Thanks! One of the comments was in regard to the inconvenience of having to use the pull-down menu each time the visitor wanted to see the national-level results from a different year (when the desire was to view national results from many different years). I have added a “Menu” button that now presents a list of years in the left-side frame to have quick access to national-results pages. If you have an idea for a better/more intuitive method for accessing this function, feel free to comment.

Today, I have uploaded a site survey to solicit feedback on the site and to obtain information on how to make the site better. This survey automatically pops up if you load the home page (I know that this can be annoying, but fortunately, you only need to visit the home page once 🙂 The survey is also available via a link located in the bottom frame of the election results pages. If you have a moment, please fill out the form. I greatly appreciate it!
Thanks,
Dave

I have upgraded the Atlas home pages (This includes the uselectionatlas.org home page plus the general interactive pages such as information, guestbook, email form, about, faq, etc.) to W3C XHTML and CSS compliance. This upgrade has also enhanced the navigation (I think that it looks nicer too). Older browsers may have trouble with these pages (especially Netscape 4) and I recommend upgrading to a standards-compliant browser.

The upgrade also combines the Presidential Primary and General elections into a single navigation frame. Please let me know if you encounter any problems or broken links.

For those of you interested, I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time on the site – although the results of this effort are not yet visible. I’ve learned how to build web pages from a database and I’m in the process of migrating the site to be fully database-driven. This will produce a site that is more flexible with many more options to present information, hyper link new pages, compare results, and so forth. The maintenance is also much easier! 🙂

I’ve also been collecting more data/information and building more maps. Of course, the Election 2004 campaign has already begun and I plan to create candidate comparisons on issues (like what was available in 2000) and present the results of the primaries in addition to the 2004 general election.