Posted by DeLong at October 24, 2004 09:34 PM | TrackBackGet out and Vote!: Welcome to MyPollingSite.com
We offer a Free nonpartison web based service to help voters find their polling site in four clicks or less.
In the 2000 Presidential election we helped 129,000 voters find their polling site. 8000 were from Florida.
This site was created in a reaction to the often hard to locate and impossible to remember polling site pages. For instance, if you wanted to vote in Grays Harbor County in Washinton state you would after much poking around come to this webpage: Http://www.co.grays-harbor.wa.us/info/auditor/elections/index.htm, or you can come here to www.mypollingsite.com. And if you run into a friend on the street who wants to know where to vote, which do you tell him?
There are 3,040 counties in the United States, and 36 percent of them have online polling data. Those 36 percent of counties hold 70 percent of the U.S. population. And we can get you there in 4 clicks or less. For the 30 percent of Americans not in one of those counties we offer an address and phone number of your local elections office.
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Posted by: Larry Pinkerton at October 24, 2004 10:23 PMHmm. A noble attempt, but decidedly less than perfect. Four clicks got me to my county's Board of Elections site (where I could find a pollsite list or a precinct atlas among a couple dozen links), but attempts on 3 other urban counties were broken or irrelevant; 5 more-or-less random exurban & rural counties linked to the list of contact info for all 100 county Boards of Election in my state (the most useful page I saw). The only link I found in my casual search that actually listed polling places directly from the map (i.e., in 4 clicks) was for the most conservative urban county in the state; my own previous county, by far the state's most liberal, had no link at all.
I'm don't actually believe there's a bias in the site, about which I know nothing other than from your post. But I'm afraid it's of dubious utility. Even the counties that list pollsites don't necessarily spell out which one is appropriate; for example, I live closer to a neighboring precinct's pollsite than to my own. The site uses frames, which don't thrill most of us anyway, but which also mask the URL of the actual site with the "home" frame's URL.
In short (ha! short!), readers may have access to a better resource. I keep the Board of Elections contact info in my wallet, along with info for the local coordinated campaign -- if there's a coordinated campaign in your area, they might appreciate the chance to make sure that the voter gets the right information (plus encouragement & transportation, if necessary).
In any event, you might want to check MyPollingSite's degree of usefulness in your own area before recommending it to strangers. The quickest usable data I could get was by Googling "[my state] board elections"; the state's site was first hit, and a link on the front page let me search for my own name to confirm my voter registration status (potentially a good thing to do early!) and offered pictures of my polling place. YMMV.
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Posted by: Rah at October 25, 2004 01:39 AMYes, imperfect. Our local election officials have a history of providing inaccurate information. As far as I can tell, to Democrats and/or newcomers to this West Texas county where newcomers tend to be more liberal. But I'm guessing. What I know is that on two occasions I've had to report their obscurantics about voting places to the TX Sec'y of State who did their best to clean up the situation. Don't know until I try to vote this year whether it will be easy or -- once again -- confusing.
The Polling Site effort would be more effective if it actually listed the polling sites by precinct and urged people to let them know if that info turns out to be inaccurate. That way we could nail the districts which play games with the process and make a national effort to do something about those specific areas before the next election. Mid-term elections in 2006 may be really crucial.
Posted by: PW at October 25, 2004 05:52 AMYes, imperfect. Our local election officials have a history of providing inaccurate information. As far as I can tell, to Democrats and/or newcomers to this West Texas county where newcomers tend to be more liberal. But I'm guessing. What I know is that on two occasions I've had to report their obscurantics about voting places to the TX Sec'y of State who did their best to clean up the situation. Don't know until I try to vote this year whether it will be easy or -- once again -- confusing.
The Polling Site effort would be more effective if it actually listed the polling sites by precinct and urged people to let them know if that info turns out to be inaccurate. That way we could nail the districts which play games with the process and make a national effort to do something about those specific areas before the next election. Mid-term elections in 2006 may be really crucial.
Posted by: PW at October 25, 2004 05:55 AMHmm... I was all set to recommend it, because it got my Massachusetts polling site right, and my street name is a little weird.
Unfortunately I suppose the information in it is only as good as what the guy can get, and the site's organization isn't great.
How did you pick Gray's Harbor, my mom's home county?
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