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Preemptive Karma:
Yesterday as I was working away on my data collection for the various counties in Washington, I was handed what I think is a very interesting, very important piece of the informational puzzle.
(more after the jump)
I spoke on the phone with Winnie Flores-Logan, Chief Deputy Auditor of the Kitsap County, Washington Elections Office.
Ms. Flores-Logan informed me that individuals can register to vote in Kitsap County for just one election. Kitsap County can do this because they're relatively small. This allows military voters, snowbirds and citizens living overseas to vote in one election, and then be dropped off the voting rolls.
Flores-Logan informed me that immediately following the printing of poll books for the election, those individuals who have registered to vote for just the one election are purged from the rolls.
Why is this relevant?
Any individual or organization attempting to reconcile the November 2004 election based on voter rolls from any date before all of the registered voters were on the poll books would have incorrect information. And any individual or organization attempting to reconcile the November 2004 election with voter rolls after the 2004 election would also have incorrect information.
The only way to properly reconcile ballots/voters in Kitsap County is to do it in person, with the polling books.