[CivicAccess-discuss] Free US Census data leads to analysis of Electoral results!

[Ilona Dougherty]

Tracey,

Thanks for your thoughts on this. This kind of demographic breakdown  
would be very useful for groups like ours....
I am curious as to what is the best way to continue / advance this  
discussion......it is certainly a critical one.

Ilona

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On 8-Nov-08, at 11:07 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> Did anyone notice that during the Canadian elections there were few  
> if any maps on the Tele Screen?
>
> There were no magic pyramid charts with bars with a demographic  
> group marked on it and associated to each electoral district and a  
> tap on the board yielding a pop out pie chart?
>
> Has anyone seen in the private media the breakdown of the Canadian  
> vote by electoral district and a discussion of who lives there?
>
> Have you noticed the silences in blogs about organizing and  
> stategizing around certain demographic groups, the pattern of the  
> vote and etc.?
>
> Have you read in Canada about the anglophone vote, Haitian vote,  
> Chinese vote, aboriginal vote, eastern European vote, youth vote,  
> poor vote, rich vote, senior's vote, womyn's vote, men's vote, etc.?
>
> Well we cannot even imagine having that conversation because our  
> public data are locked up in the deep lurkium dbases of Statistics  
> Canada, while our public electoral maps are locked up, funny, also  
> in the same dbase, and the key to all of these are the Cost  
> Recovery Price!
>
> How are we to imagine our country in all its diversity if we are  
> not even allowed to make pictures that tell us part of our story?   
> These last two elections - back to back - made obvious the real  
> cost to locked up data - a collective national ignorance!
>
> I have been reading blogs about Proposition 8 (same sex marriage)  
> vote in the US, the demographic breakdown of those results, and was  
> drooling over the visuals i watched on election night.  Seems to  
> me, the data, the infrastructure and the pictures can help us have  
> a conversation about sameness and differences.  Canada however  
> remains silent!
>
> -- 
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
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