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Sunday, October 4, 2015

REMEMBER TO REGISTER TO VOTE!!

Tomorrow (October 5th,2015)  is the last day to register or reactivate your registration at myvote.wa.gov in Whatcom County. If you moved, you must reactivate your registration online with your new address by tomorrow! If you are having trouble, the Elections Office will help you!  There will be important votes for council, jail and political districting. Remember to register to vote! Code and output for this post are here. All data for active registrants: current as October 2, 2015:

Number of Active Voters: 
128572

Number of currently registered voters who participated in the last general election*:
2014 General: 0 = not voted, 1 = voted, NA = not registered then
  BallotCounted_1     n
1               0 44958
2               1 73882
3              NA  9732
*Having your voted counted is mostly equivalent to voting. Make sure you fill out your ballot correctly and return it on time!

Top ten most populous precincts
    PrecinctID    n
1          245 1385
2          201 1284
3          208 1223
4          253 1183
5          182 1175
6          140 1143
7          302 1082
8          169 1079
9          225 1070
10         231 1051

Top Ten Birth Years
   year(mdy(as.character(voterdb$BirthDa...    n
1                                      1954 2474
2                                      1952 2450
3                                      1953 2450
4                                      1994 2420
5                                      1951 2409
6                                      1947 2400
7                                      1992 2371
8                                      1993 2370
9                                      1950 2351
10                                     1957 2328

Top ten "self-identified" cities by voter
   ResidenceCity     n
1     Bellingham 74768
2       Ferndale 14151
3         Lynden 13107
4         Blaine 10332
5        Everson  4958
6         Custer  1922
7    Maple Falls  1816
8         Deming  1807
9          Sumas  1445
10 Sedro-Woolley  1212

Top ten zip codes
   ResidenceZipCode     n
1             98225 28156
2             98226 26467
3             98229 20145
4             98248 14151
5             98264 13107
6             98230 10332
7             98247  4958
8             98244  2003
9             98240  1922
10            98266  1816

By Gender
  Gender     n
1      F 66984
2      M 61581

Top Ten Female Precincts by Count* 
    PrecinctID Females Count PCT_female
1          245     779  1385  0.5624549
2          201     747  1284  0.5817757
3          208     678  1223  0.5543745
4          253     621  1183  0.5249366
5          182     606  1175  0.5157447
6          601     592  1050  0.5638095
7          505     590  1041  0.5667627
8          302     571  1082  0.5277264
9          169     553  1079  0.5125116
10         206     552  1034  0.5338491
*Remember boys, we land in jail at more than twice the rate of the girls! And a new larger jail is on the ballot!

 Age Buckets*
# Ages 17 - 35
[1] 37250
# Ages 36 - 54
[1] 37219
# Ages 55 - 110
[1] 54103
# Ages 17 - 22 e.g. Student Vote
[1] 10021
* Voters 18 by election date can register at 17

Top 10 Counts of Precincts for Birth Year equal to or greater than 1993 

   PrecinctID Count
1         245  1359
2         252   486
3         253   485
4         257   260
5         247   207
6         226   180
7         246   171
8         263   165
9         258   151
10        228   146

Top 10 Counts of Precincts for Birth Year less than or equal to 1983
   PrecinctID Count
1         201   935
2         182   890
3         601   871
4         208   849
5         169   846
6         126   840
7         302   828
8         140   815
9         107   813
10        101   810

Chance your country and county will be a sustainable democracy if you don't register and vote in general election 2015:

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2 comments:

Barbara Perry said...

These numbers are interesting. I want to know where funding for elections is originating. Did Koch fund the new jail advertising or in any other way? Are the articles on NW Citizen, an On-Lie news source, about the new jail being viewed by how many citizens? How many viewers read the Herald? Does the Herald get extra funding from sources that would benefit economically by the billion dollar jail? What happened to the taxes for the jail that voters passed ion a previous election?

Ryan M. Ferris said...

Hi Barbara:

I don't know the answers to most of these questions. Deputy Steve Harris has talked about funding issues for the jail in his facebook posts. David Camp has talked about Jail Funding issues on NW Citizen. Tonight and LWV Forum, Whatcom County Council person Satpal Sidhu mentioned that law and justice is 60% of Whatcom County's budget. I don't imagine that percentage is novel to our county. I have a post on GF-S funding for the state that shows the state distributes $800M for Corrections to Washington counties: http://www.bellinghampoliticsandeconomics.com/2015/05/2013-general-fund-state-revenues-and.html

Law and justice expenditures in this county equates to many millions of dollars for they include each city police services, Whatcom County, Jail Services, Whatcom Sheriff, DHS/Border Partol expenses on the border (probably hundreds of millions), courts, social services, lawyers, lawsuits, etc. Joy Gilfilen points tonight at the LWV voters Forum was essentially that law and justice expenditures here and nationwide need overhaul and reform. The efforts at Restorative Justice in Whatcom County (http://whatcomrec.org/) are designed to rebuild our community into a safer place without continuing jail terms for so many. Some authors that write elegantly on the "Prison Industrial Complex" are Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Todd Clear, and Michelle Alexander. I have some links on my side bar to some of their interviews. My research indicates we book about 6500 citizens about 10,000 times (for many different charges) in Whatcom County each year. It is the equivalent of booking 2% or more of our population each year. Personally, I think our law and justice system nationwide has created an apartheid system based on race, poverty that is destroying our nation. Lots of scholars and researchers are talking about this...