... or de-aggregation.
Update (Oct. 18, 2014): the following italicized post is a few years old, and as a result there are changes in my thoughts about how de-aggregation of the ballots should proceed. De-aggregating by 250 divisions may be overbroad as it would probably be a little too unwieldy to accomplish, given the logistics of the department of elections. My new plan is to de-aggregate the ballots by legislative districts as there are several in King County either partially shared with other counties, or in whole within the county. Of course, this is a dramatic departure from my original plan as this would whittle down that plan's de-aggregation number by over a couple of hundred divisions to a more pragmatic number, and would give the department a simple format, the particular legislative district that ballots come from, for a practical division of the ballots that would make them easier to count, less mistake-prone, and more efficient and transparent for election officials, analysts and canvassers.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Director of Elections in King County (2015)
Hello Voters and Supporters,
I have spent so much time writing about the non-administrative aspects regarding the director of elections election (2011), that I have spent too little time writing about actual election administration process. So I am proposing the overhaul of the way ballots are handled at Elections. With the way the system is now, in a big county like King, a million ballots, for example, are thrown together with complicated codes and variances, and put through a mistake-prone system, including machines originally from a controversial company, and otherwise processed in a way that makes human and machine error virtually a certainty. This centralized system will be replaced if I am elected. I will implement a system of de-centralization in which there will be 250 divisions, with each division containing around 10 precincts, and thereby being responsible for the tabulation of 1/250 of the ballots that the present system accounts for in a single centralized system. The totals from the 250 divisions will simply be added together to get the final results for each measure or position. In a single entity, that cuts down the number of overall ballots from one million to four thousand (or whatever the particular ratio is depending on what the total number of ballots are in a particular election), and thereby will make processing less mistake prone, and errors or fraud easier to find. No more of a million ballots thrown together and hoping for the best.
- Mark Greene
[Originally published on Commoner on 9/15/2011; updated on 10/20/2014.]
Update (Oct. 18, 2014): the following italicized post is a few years old, and as a result there are changes in my thoughts about how de-aggregation of the ballots should proceed. De-aggregating by 250 divisions may be overbroad as it would probably be a little too unwieldy to accomplish, given the logistics of the department of elections. My new plan is to de-aggregate the ballots by legislative districts as there are several in King County either partially shared with other counties, or in whole within the county. Of course, this is a dramatic departure from my original plan as this would whittle down that plan's de-aggregation number by over a couple of hundred divisions to a more pragmatic number, and would give the department a simple format, the particular legislative district that ballots come from, for a practical division of the ballots that would make them easier to count, less mistake-prone, and more efficient and transparent for election officials, analysts and canvassers.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Director of Elections in King County (2015)
Hello Voters and Supporters,
I have spent so much time writing about the non-administrative aspects regarding the director of elections election (2011), that I have spent too little time writing about actual election administration process. So I am proposing the overhaul of the way ballots are handled at Elections. With the way the system is now, in a big county like King, a million ballots, for example, are thrown together with complicated codes and variances, and put through a mistake-prone system, including machines originally from a controversial company, and otherwise processed in a way that makes human and machine error virtually a certainty. This centralized system will be replaced if I am elected. I will implement a system of de-centralization in which there will be 250 divisions, with each division containing around 10 precincts, and thereby being responsible for the tabulation of 1/250 of the ballots that the present system accounts for in a single centralized system. The totals from the 250 divisions will simply be added together to get the final results for each measure or position. In a single entity, that cuts down the number of overall ballots from one million to four thousand (or whatever the particular ratio is depending on what the total number of ballots are in a particular election), and thereby will make processing less mistake prone, and errors or fraud easier to find. No more of a million ballots thrown together and hoping for the best.
- Mark Greene
[Originally published on Commoner on 9/15/2011; updated on 10/20/2014.]
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