Mark A. Connelly
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This isn't everything though -- I think they only gave me certain categories based on my request and research focus (Annexations, Deannexations, Boundary Changes, Incorporations). Perhaps I can put some time into getting the Python script on Github over the next quarter.
January 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This isn't everything though -- I think they only gave me certain categories based on my request and research focus (Annexations, Deannexations, Boundary Changes, Incorporations). Perhaps I can put some time into getting the Python script on Github over the next quarter.
I FOIA'd STAPS a few years ago (this system goes back to 1980). They sent me PDFs from the system. Most are born-digital, some need to be OCR'd. I started working on scripts to process the data, but never finished. The PDFs are on Internet Archive archive.org/details/loca...
Submission Tracking and Processing System - California Annexations, 1980-2017 : U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Arch...
Summaries of 141 submissions from January 1, 1980, to April 5, 2017, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for preclearance of annexations to government units in...
archive.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I FOIA'd STAPS a few years ago (this system goes back to 1980). They sent me PDFs from the system. Most are born-digital, some need to be OCR'd. I started working on scripts to process the data, but never finished. The PDFs are on Internet Archive archive.org/details/loca...
A lot of these are solvable problems, though. Isn't the goal of having self-driving, electric cars so that cars are safer, less polluting, and so we can avoid waste (e.g., moving from a capex model where you buy a car and it sits for 90% of the time to an opex model with fewer, but on-demand cars)?
December 28, 2024 at 9:29 PM
A lot of these are solvable problems, though. Isn't the goal of having self-driving, electric cars so that cars are safer, less polluting, and so we can avoid waste (e.g., moving from a capex model where you buy a car and it sits for 90% of the time to an opex model with fewer, but on-demand cars)?
The challenge I have with this essay is that it doesn't address why the suburbs have moved left, and why Republicans struggle to bring out voters outside of Presidential elections.
December 14, 2024 at 3:56 AM
The challenge I have with this essay is that it doesn't address why the suburbs have moved left, and why Republicans struggle to bring out voters outside of Presidential elections.