[EL] Question about mail-in ballots and VRA Section 2 analsyes

[John McCarthy]

Ballot Groups aka Ballot Styles
Sorting by ballot styles also reduces the privacy issues that arise with 
split precincts and other sets with small numbers of voters.

John McCarthy, Verified Voting volunteer since 2004

On 5/1/2020 6:00 PM, larrylevine at earthlink.net wrote:
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> The solution is not that complicated. It’s done by ballot groups, not 
> by precincts. Multiple precincts and parts of precincts can be formed 
> into ballot groups based on the overlapping geopolitical 
> jurisdictions. California has been doing it for decades. I presume 
> other states have also. The methodology and technology exist. If other 
> states and elections offices can put aside their provincialism it can 
> be done. But, as we’ve seen too often, elections officials can be 
> territorial and those that fund the administration of elections can be 
> stingy.
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> Larry
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> *From:*Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> 
> *On Behalf Of *Dan Meek
> *Sent:* Friday, 1 May 2020 12:43 PM
> *To:* law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Question about mail-in ballots and VRA Section 2 
> analsyes
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> If a general election is conducted with mail-in ballots, it would be 
> necessary to identify each ballot by precinct in order to know who won 
> legislative and local government contests.  You would need to know the 
> precinct totals in order to know who won city offices, district 
> offices, and state legislative offices, none of which are elected "by 
> county."
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> On 5/1/2020 12:18 PM, George Korbel wrote:
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>     *From:* Law-election
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>     <mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> on behalf
>     of Jeff Wice <jmwice at gmail.com> <mailto:jmwice at gmail.com>
>     *Sent:* Friday, May 1, 2020 2:10:19 PM
>     *To:* Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
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>     *Subject:* [EL] Question about mail-in ballots and VRA Section 2
>     analsyes
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>     Dr. Lisa Handley recently pointed out to me an issue related to
>     mail-in ballots and Voting Rights Section 2 compliance.
>     Determining if a redistricting plan complies with Section 2 of the
>     Voting Rights Act requires a racial bloc voting analysis and this
>     is conducted using election precinct returns and other election
>     precinct data.
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>     Several counties do not report (and some states do not require)
>     mail-in ballots to be allocated back to the election precinct
>     level but instead simply tabulate and report the votes at the
>     county level. This would  not permit anyone to conduct a racial
>     bloc voting analysis.
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>     In these situations, is there any way to ensure that mail-in
>     ballots be reported at the election precinct level as opposed to
>     the county level?
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>     Jeff Wice
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