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# Endorsement races and partisan ballots

- To: <bugtrack@dieboldes.com>
- Subject: Endorsement races and partisan ballots
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@dieboldes.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:43:46 -0600
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <008801be76f3$099ac120$0a04a8c0@maryann.dieboldes.com>

> Endorsement races
> An election is defined with one report precinct, three partisan voter groups (Republican, Democrat, Libertarian) as well as a polling voter group. Three jurisdiction-wide races are defined:
> - a endorsement race with the three partisan voter groups
> - a non-endorsed question
> - an endorsed precinct committee race linked to the polling voter group, with three endorsed candidates
> Two ballot styles are created: one correctly contains the endorsement race, the question and the precinct committee race, and the other contains the endorsement race and question.

Or create a closed primary with a straight party race, right?

> Should GEMS be able to distinguish that question responses are non-endorseable?

Questions are treated like any candidate race. In fact, you can endorse "yes" if you want.
Perhaps you are suggesting that we should not allow a race to have an endorsement controlling race unless there are endorsed candidates in the race? I suppose we could do that, but I don't really see why we would want to. There is nothing paticularly "wrong" with assigning an endorsement race with no endorsed candidates. Its just a strange thing to do.

> Consider the same election, without the question. Two ballot styles are created, one correctly containing the endorsement and precinct committee races, the other one erroneously containing the endorsement race only.

I believe this is the same as saying:

> Create an election with exactly one race, an endorsement race. Generate ballots. GEMS erroneously creates a ballot with that race on it.

We could add a feature to GEMS to not put the endorsement race on the ballot if there are no races that use that endorsement race. If we find a jurisdiction which has this condition, we will consider it. After considering it, we will probably conclude it is easier to not print that card.
Ken

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