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FEC unleashes 12 more years of Federal Elections copies Posted October 10, 2011 at 05:00pm by RBH Check it out: [Link] The 1982 through 1994 editions of Federal Elections are now online in .pdf format. And they say the Government is ineffective. Forgetting it's prowess in using a scanner and Adobe to put documents online. Aside from that... weeeeeelllll. In unrelated news, if you didn't watch Breaking Bad this year, you can probably make up for that soon. 0 Messages An update on US House Data Entry Progress Posted February 18, 2011 at 10:00pm by RBH Around the beginning of the year, the following states' US House races were known to be incomplete: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia. So a combination of free time, and having the local Dubin-carrying-in-reference library back at full-use (Congressional Elections was in storage for a year during their renovation) was enough to make a run at getting these results entered. Since then, all the states listed except Massachusetts and New York have been completed (I think the order was New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland, Maine, New Jersey). From states like Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Virginia, who were incomplete over a short period of time (a few decades here and there), to Maine, New Jersey, and New Hampshire which were incomplete for periods of around 100 years (from the 1810s to 1920 with the exception of 1824). In 48 of 50 states, barring some special elections which may have been overlooked (I've found a few but it has to be a very low number by now, and most were post-1920/pre-1970), the info for general elections is complete. As for Massachusetts and New York, here's an assessment of what isn't entered. 0 Messages Operation Hawaii Data Entry Posted February 19, 2010 at 03:00pm by RBH Aloha. Those of you who have noticed the "New Races" column on the left in the last week or so have noticed a lot of races with HI in them. Well, after coming into contact with a pdf listing Hawaii House members from 1959 to 2009 ( [Link] ), I decided to emulate the original data entry for Alaska's state house and senate races, and enter the winners. So the list of winners from 1959 to 2008 are almost complete (aside from appointments made in the 1990s). And the Senate process should take a bit longer due to some things I'll mention. Hawaii's election site only goes back to 1992, and that's where the complications lay. 0 Messages Missouri's failed redistricting of 1921 Posted March 11, 2009 at 05:00pm by RBH From 1903 to 1933, Missouri's Congressional Map looked like this:
With such unique looking districts as the 7th (the one shaped like a hammer) and the 14th (the one that goes across Southeast Missouri). Extra note: STL is split between three districts with two of them entirely in the city. But after the 1920 elections, Republicans won control of the Governor's office and the state house. But the mystery of why this combination didn't produce a new map can be summed up as follows. They tried, then it got voted down in November 1922. But what about the proposed districts? How would they have altered history?
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