[EL] a quibble about Prof. McDonald's voter registration data

Subject: [EL] a quibble about Prof. McDonald's voter registration data

From: Richard Winger

Date: 10/13/2010, 6:44 PM

To: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

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"richardwinger@yahoo.com"

I applaud Professor Michael P. McDonald for gathering partisan voter registration totals, but I am going public with my complaint that he does an incomplete job on the minor parties. His latest chart says, "I note that eight states (of the 29 states that have registration by party) do not officially recognize any minor party.

His chart has no minor party data for Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. But all of those states except New Hampshire and Oklahoma do provide minor party registration data. They will give it out if they are asked. They just don't post it on their web pages.

I have e-mailed Professor McDonald about this before, and he gives me the impression that he isn't interested in what I have to contribute about this data, so I am making a general complaint here to those who might be interested.