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snippet: The distinct combinations of Jefferson County commissioner, state house, state senate and congressional districts, with the names of the associated elected officials, for use in the "Who is My Commissioner?" web application.
summary: The distinct combinations of Jefferson County commissioner, state house, state senate and congressional districts, with the names of the associated elected officials, for use in the "Who is My Commissioner?" web application.
accessInformation: Jefferson County, Colorado Clerk and Recorder Elections Office and Jefferson County, Colorado Business, Innovation, and Technology Division - GIS Section
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description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Data Type: Dynamic Vintage: Current</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The data represents the distinct combinations of Jefferson County commissioner, state house, state senate and congressional districts, with the names of the associated elected officials, for use in the "Who is My Commissioner?" web application.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Note </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;">broad </SPAN><SPAN>changes to commissioner district boundaries occur only after county precincts have changed in response to re-districting, a process that happens every ten years. However, note </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;">slight </SPAN><SPAN>modiffication to the </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;">representation</SPAN><SPAN> of all of these district boundaries may occur due to general editing of BaseLine and coincident BasePoly features in the Address Street Political (ASP) database. Such editing occurs on a daily to weekly basis by the GIS Team in Business &amp; Innovation Technologies, therefore this feature class is regenerated when such editing occurs through automated geoprocessing (ASP Derivative and ASP to Warehouse).</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>As employed in the "Who is My Commissioner?" web app, the data allows the user to point at a location in this polygonal data whereby associated attributes are returned.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;">** IMPORTANT ** </SPAN><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>While a commissioner must </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;">live </SPAN><SPAN>in the district from whence elected, note election occurs on an at-large basis: that is, when a commissioner district race is on the ballot, all Jefferson County registered voters decide the outcome of the race. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Commissioner districts therefore ensure a measure of spatial diversity in terms of where commissioners live within the County, but as for representation, all commissioners represent all citizens. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>Data is in State Plane Grid Coordinates, Colorado Central Zone, NAD83 (US feet).</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
licenseInfo: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This data is intended for use by Jefferson County agencies as an aid in internal decision support and for planning purposes only. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>External use of this data by any entity not under the authority of an elected office of Jefferson County is not constrained to Jefferson County's Enterprise License Agreement. Use by external sources does not confer any warranty nor liability to Jefferson County and its elected offices, divisions and departments.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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