Thursday, June 6, 2013

Trying to understand the Greenburgh 2005 & 2007 Dem. primary numbers


Paul Feiner is now facing only his third Democratic primary challenge in his 12 campaigns for the office of Greenburgh Town Supervisor.   Feiner narrowly fended off William Greenawalt in a squeaker back in 2005.  The squeaquel, however, was much less squeaky: in 2007 Feiner clobbered Sandra Berger by doubling her vote total.   The district-by-district breakdown for those primaries can be found at the Westchester County Board of Election website at:
http://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/BOE_2005_Prim_Canvass_Bk.pdf
(pp. 4-6), and
http://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/images/stories/pdfs/BOE_2007PrimaryCanvassBook.pdf
(pp. 71-74).

Frustratingly, the Greenburgh voting districts are identified by numbers and not communities.  From village elections results and websites, I can identify the district numbers for the villages, which cover 42 of the 83 Greenburgh voting districts.  I can't matchup the remaining Uninc. Greenburgh voting districts with their respective neighborhoods.  I very much want that kind of breakdown.  If you have that information, please contact me.

Here's something else puzzling.  I was going to assume that these primary canvass books provided by Westchester County are official, final results.   What's strange is that the 2007 primary results list 83 Greenburgh voting districts and the presidential election of 2012 results show 81, but the 2005 primary results carry only 56 districts (with the highest number being district 71).  In this supposedly close primary of 2005,  the results presented show that Feiner had 2983 to Greenawalt's 2786 votes.   The missing districts included almost 2000 votes in the 2007 primary. Where are the final, total results?  

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