Reply #26: Prediction (North Carolina)

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Just to stick my neck out, here's a prediction to test my methods for figuring out which precinct is which. If it turns out false, I'll have to improve the code.

I predict In North Carolina, precint 9 in the data file will be one of these two precincts in Catawba county:

7 Conover West FIRST METHODIST CHURCH 410 NORTH 1ST AVE, CONOVER, NC
33 Springs MT. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH 4420 COUNTY HOME RD, CONOVER, NC

In case anyone wants some trivia, I had my code spit out the criteria used and found that, at least in North Carolina district 10, the reason I was able to narrow this particular precinct down to only 3 choices (and then discard one based on it being too rural) is that a grand total of two (2) Asian Male Registered Democrats between the ages of 41 and 65 took the NEP survey. There were other criteria as well, but that is the one that singlehandedly eliminated the most precincts in that district.

So apparently they are a bit rare to come by, at least regionally.

The next most unique precinct is NEP #69, which has 14 possible matches in the state according to my code, before looking at population.