The Amazing Disappearing ANC 2C Meeting!

Just remember, Gallery Place folks: Doris Brooks represents you.
If more people had turned out to vote for John Tinpe in November, the ANC situation would be quite different.

DaddyFiveOh: Actually, if *everyone* in Gallery Place was registered and turned out to vote last November, we still would not have been able to get John in office. You can blame that on the way the lines were drawn during the 2000 census.

The next election will be a different story because we have 2 more condominiums that were just completed in ANC 2C03 (Artisan & Ventana).

Sorry, didn’t mean to be unfair–just to point out that turning out to vote does matter. Maybe you’re right about the numbers, but there is indeed some hope for next time around. In addition to the ones you mention, the Whitman (9th & M)is in Brooks’s 2C03 district. Also, Barbara Curtis (2C04) won by less than 30 votes, and the Yale condos will be open by 2008–so potentially more votes there. Let’s hope John or another good candidate will try again.

Yes, I forgot the Whitman. Also, the 10th & G St church had several dozen (if not 100’s) of registered homeless voters. Since the soup-kitchen has closed and the church has relocated, we should seek to remove people from voter records who no longer “live” in our neighborhood.

There’s 117 people registered at 945 G Street NW, of whom 3 voted in the 2006 general (nearly 20 in the 2004 general!). But if they’re not registered at the church, where do they register? Surely GPliving agrees that homeless people should have the right to vote.

I believe ward, ANC, school board, etc. boundaries are drawn based on census data, not numbers of registered voters, so having a huge concentration of (homeless) voters at a single address wouldn’t compromise the redistricting process. Shelters just provide people a physical address to use so they can register to vote. The Census Bureau absolutely does not use that information when counting an area’s resident population.

Anon: Awesome! Where did you get those voter stats? My comments about being registered in ANC 2C03 are merely technical in nature:

What’s to prevent someone who moved away from DC from voting in the next election using their ‘old’ address? Looking at the voter registration from the last election, I noticed cases where several people were registered at one apartment unit address (and had different last names). It raised the question as to how often the voter rolls are pruned.

As for the homeless from 945 G St, I would hope they would change their addresses to their new location at 4th & E St in Ward 6.

My understanding is that basically the only way someone who moves away from the District gets removed from the voting rolls is if they ask to be removed. That’s why PG County is sometimes referred to as the “Ninth Ward”. I’ve heard it alleged (but can’t substantiate) that this has been a factor in local ANC and other elections. I’d like to be proved wrong about this.

Does it really matter if they meet? Until competent individuals who actually care about our area get elected the ANC is useless to us.

If someone is concerned about this, they can compare voting lists from PG County and DC; feel free to pass on your findings to the U.S. Attorney’s offices and The Washington Post. I have a lot of experience with voting fraud in major cities, and would not be surprised by this at all.

Thanks anon! I think I just might do that. The DCBOEE allows one to obtain who voted in elections here.

recently i got a BOEE card asking if the previous occupant of my house still lived there. if not, check this box and drop back in the mail. so i did….and the card came right back to me lol.

I also want to point out when I go to vote, no one ever asks me for ID.

perhaps dc should require residents to register EVERY year.

Si: Interesting info!

The WaPo talked about showing ID: In the District, you will need to show identification, such as a driver’s license or utility bill, only if you are a first-time voter who registered by mail and did not submit a copy of your identification.

sausage recipe:

boundaries are created by the DC state Democratic party committee, then boundaries are cooked by the local politicians and under direction of the council chairman a councilmember is appointed by the chairman to make it happen, finally approved by city council. Anita Bonds (ANC ward 5) currently heads the state committee.