Voting by nonresident landowners

[carl3]

I know of some special district elections that permit (or only allow) landowners who own property with the district area to vote, even nonresident landowners. There are 2 cases of who votes: (1) residents of
the GpUnit area and nonresident landowners, (2) only landowners resident or nonresident. In the case of (1) the outcome is the total of resident+nonresident, in the case of (2) not all residents of the GpUnit can vote. Typically, nonresident landowners register separately, and receive a vote-by-mail ballot with just the relevant contest(s).

Sometimes separate contest-IDs are used within an EMS making interpretation of results somewhat confusing (in this case contest results are subtotals). One solution is to add a new ReportingUnitType "landowner-area" meaning a subtotal applying to registered landowners. When nonresident landowner votes are combined with resident votes, the ReportingUnitType "resident-area" could distinguish the landowner and resident subtotals. Some EMS system have these landowner special districts as a separate district ID.

[JDziurlaj]

My feeling is that this could be handled by the use of Count::Type and Count::OtherType. You could report the landowners vote totals separately, but as part of a single logical contest.