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Purged voter count data by ZIP (Postal) code from the Ohio Secretary of State's website (https://registrationreadiness.ohiosos.gov/#). Voting age population data is from the 2022 American Community Survey published by the US Census.

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[-] memfree@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Context?

Without knowing how this compares to other states, which areas have higher counts of rental properties, how other states compare, and things like average or percentage of: ages, incomes, ethnicities, and probably party affiliation, this doesn't tell us much by itself.

I am encouraged that it is given as a percentage of the voting population instead of a numeric count (XKCD's pet peeve #208), but it still looks a lot like a population map. I had to find a straight population map to compare where it differs, and as a quick visual trend they are similar. From https://www.someka.net/blog/ohio-zip-code-map/ :

Overlap that with an income map (from https://proximityone.com/srdmi/ohdmi.htm):

With only a visual examination, I still have little idea of what the map says about voter purging. I can't tell if old people are getting purged as they die, if college students are getting purged as they fail to change from their school address, or if a particular party is getting purged just to sway elections.

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Only looking at northeast Ohio, the population and income maps you show are high along the Cleveland-Akron-Canton corridor, where the voter purge is west of there - Wooster & Mansfield.

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