One of the on-going challenges of administering local elections is planning for the number of ballots that will be needed for each election. It's a bit of a studied art of educated guesstimates about past patterns and trying to predict how "hot" an upcoming election will be. You want to make sure you have plenty of ballots printed but try not to produce too many wasted ones either. Therefore I'm asking HBO readers to make some of their own predictions about the city elections this fall, especially the CDA race (we usually also conduct them for Hayden, Post Falls, and Rathdrum as). Looking back at the last 3 CDA city council races (one with the mayor position and two without) the turnout has been about 25% which translates into around 14,000 ballots -- Dan of the County.
Question: So how many ballots should we order for this time?
And just for the fun of it, how many candidates do you think we will have for the 3 seats that are up? Actually, for all of the smoke, heat, and flame so far I am fairly surprised that no one including incumbents have actually declared. Will it end up being all smoke and no flame? It's certainly not easy these days to be in public office or even run for one so I commend all who try.
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
each election. It's a bit of a studied art of educated guesstimates about past patterns and trying to predict how "hot" an upcoming election will be. You want to make sure you have plenty of ballots printed but try not to produce too many wasted ones either. Therefore I'm asking HBO readers to make some of their own predictions about the city elections this fall, especially the CDA race (we usually also conduct them for Hayden, Post Falls, and Rathdrum as). Looking back at the last 3 CDA city council races (one with the mayor position and two without) the turnout has been about 25% which translates into around 14,000 ballots -- Dan of the County.
