dissabte, 25 de desembre del 2010

Christmas lunch

This is the picture after the battle

  

Time to verify that there is a family, that they have not forgotten you, eat and drink.

Also good time to recap activities of the last months.

In fact, a lot of expectations accompagnied of few facts, but not reaching the minimum expectations. In fact, I've only some investigation paths, and a very limited set of data to work.
I'm starting to understand the time frame of this kind of research projects: nobody is expecting you to serve your interests.
I will use the 10 days of Christmas Holidays to see what can I do with the already available records, and to contact the political parties, which could be a source of information

divendres, 3 de desembre del 2010

a, b, c, d....

The original documents produced after a local election process, seem to have the origin not in the Province, but in the Zone Electoral Administration, so at a lower level.

They keep copy of the summary, while the originals are deposited in the Catalonia National Archive.

I will address writen requests to both, because in any case, the authorization must be issued by the Secretary of the Electoral Administration, which will disappear in about 90 days, because their lifecycle is 100 days and the elections to the Parliament took place November the 28th.

Time to run

dijous, 2 de desembre del 2010

The long path to the data sources

Since the Department of Adminstració Local couldn't provide me with historical data,  I contacted the President of the Consell Comarcal del Pallars Jussà, Xavier Pont, who commited to contact his party ( CiU), and gave me the phone number of the archives' responsible. Few days later she told me that the Consells Comarcals don't receive the data that I need.

I have contacted the Junta Electoral Central, because it would also be interesting to get the files with the names of elected members of the lists, but they don't store this kind of information, which is created by the Junta Electoral Local. This organism deads 100 days after the elections. The registers produced by the Junta Electoral, containing the details of the counting of votes, are stored by the Audiencia Provincial.

Ok. New options for asking...