Is the election intended to be the only form of interaction between the electorate and their representatives? Once elected, there are no checks and balances until the next election, or is a robust ongoing dialog with electorate and elected, always, the expectation?
This graphic is still being developed. To open the node links use right click: Open link in new tab.
In particular the links for precinct and other precincts, require: first the selection of an election, then scroll down the new page to Official County Precinct-by-Precinct Summaries, and then select Precinct-by-Precinct Results for your county of interest.
The House and Senate links are to the wyoleg.gov website.
The tabblock nodes are linked to an example of tabblock for Tax District 0205 Sheridan, Wyoming.
Tabblocks are the U.S. Census Bureau's geospatial unit of measure for housing and population. In Sheridan County, Wyoming these units can be smaller than a street block. Tabblocks are a good candidate for organizing efforts to identify and measure civic priorities.
A good civic project for a student would be to contact the County Clerk, to report to the public, on the functional differences between precincts and tax districts, and how the public in most effectively intended to interact with the two administrative designations. With the approval of a parent, sheridanclash.com is willing to publish any Sheridan County Student's work regarding this topic.
Civic priorities can be taken as step further by draft proposal resolutions, ordinances, and bills for our elected officials to address.
Is a functioning electorate that can self-organize and create civic priorities which are ranked by the degrees of consensus, or majority agreement a mean to create a civic age?
Are there any voters willing to work with sheridanclash.com to identify and measure civic priorities for their tabblock, precinct, and/or tax district?
