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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://edw2020chicago.da
 taversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=143&proposalid=12332\nAfter the 2016 pr
 esidential election, interest was generated in maintaining the security beh
 ind U.S. elections. Are people properly registered to vote, and are th
 ey then going to be allowed to do so? Are the votes tallied correctly?
  What role does the voting technology play? More significantly, a
 re votes being compromised?\nTo answer these questions requires unders
 tanding the data involved in setting them up: contests on ballots, reg
 istered voters, and a ballot appropriate for each voting precinct.&nbs
 p;This turns out to be a nontrivial (and therefore interesting) data modeli
 ng problem. \nThere are several dimensions that will be discussed in t
 his presentation:\n\n
 Geography – In the United States, a county (or, in Louisiana, a paris
 h) consists of a complex overlapping structure of congressional distri
 cts, state legislative districts, state senatorial districts, county commis
 sioner districts, and others. \n
 Candidacies – Each position being contested in an election is related
  to a particular piece of geography. By convention, each of these geog
 raphic areas is contained in one state, and many are within one county. Som
 e, however, such as congressional district, may overlap multiple counties. 
 Some positions, such as Senator and Presidential Elector, are for the 
 entire state.\n
 Registration – Each voter must first register. This entails noth
 ing more than ‘e* providing name and residence address, plus the asse
 rtions that ‘e is an American citizen, and will be age 21 by election
  day. Based on h’+ address, the voter is assigned to a precinct.
  The location of that precinct determines the positions that the voter can 
 vote for.\n
 Ballot – Because of the interlocking nature of the various candidacy 
 districts, producing a ballot for one precinct is tricky. The collecti
 on of positions for each precinct will be unique to that precinct.\n\nGeogr
 aphic software can take care of the intricate logic, but it is still incumb
 ent on each citizen (or at least each election judge) to understand how tha
 t all works. Ultimately, it will be for you, the voter, to make sure t
 hat the ballot is correct.\nIn 2018, Dave Hay was an Election Judge for a p
 recinct in Houston, Texas. The relationships among these dimensions inspire
 d him to produce this model. While it was based on Harris County, Texa
 s, it is reasonable to believe it applies to any county in the U.S. \n
 \n\n\n* “he or she”\n\n\n+ “his or her”\n\n\n
DTSTART:20201022T083000
SUMMARY:Geography, Registration, and Ballots: Data Model for an Election
DTEND:20201022T091959
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