U.S. mid-term election maps
November 7th, 2006 is the day for the U.S. mid-term election. On this day, people across the country will exercise their rights to vote and choose their representatives. With advanced GIS technology, this year you can view election competitions on digital maps.
- Election 2006: Competitive House race (from MarketWatch.com)
- Google Earth Election Map (see it in your Google Earth application)
Additional election coverage can be found on CNN and the U.S. Depeartment of State websites.
BTW, people have dreamed about an election mash-ups a year before. From Copia in Oct. 2005,
With all the talk of Web mash-ups, I wonder whether anyone has any sort of site or tool for overlaying elections district information over mapping services. I suppose one big problem is that there isn’t much commercial prospect for such a service, but surely this would be a prime candidate civic service mashups, funded by government or philanthropies. Another question is whether districting information is available in computer-readable form regular enough for inexpensive implementation of such overlays.
Well, this is not Web 2.0, but this site has a lot of election-related maps (developed for community GOTV efforts in 2004) — mostly historical precinct-level maps from the 2000 and 2002 elections.
http://www.fairdata2000.com/VoterRegistration/
California, Georgia, Minnesota, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin have been updated with 2004 election data.
Here is a link to Bush-Kerry and Latino voter precinct level maps in Google Earth.
http://tinyurl.com/y962wu
Bill
Comment by Bill — November 7, 2006 @ 9:05 am