The votes weren’t weighted, I observed the tabulation last night. Greece had 53 voters, Parma had 15.

I believe he means that each town’s (and LDs in the city) votes are weighted in determining the overall district winner.

Here’s what weighting is. This is about determining the candidate at the county party level. The designations of some towns and districts count more heavily than others. The designations are weighted when the Democratic Party (county level) picks its nominees at the county convention in May — mark your calendar, May 15th. The system for assigning weights is mysterious and understood by few people… I’m not one of them! It is somehow keyed to election turn-outs or election day votes. In any case, I know that Greece, for some reason, has a heavily weighted vote. So yesterday’s Greece caucus was important to Dollinger and Frankel

The weighting for this race is already set.

It takes 10,590 delegates to gain a majority of the delegates in the 56th Senate District and lock up the designation. A plurality would also win it, to my knowledge, though that scenario looks unlikely at this point.

The Greece/Parma vote last night votes gave Rick Dollinger a sizable lead coming out of the suburban caucuses and momentum heading into the city caucuses. He won by bigger margins than Frankel did in Brighton, and Greece is much bigger town (and therefore has more delegates).

The current counts are (rounded to nearest whole number):

Dollinger: 3,867 (45% of Brightons 2784 delegates, 56% of Greece’s 3,969 delegates, and 60% of Parma’s 652 delegates)

Frankel: 3,318 (53% of Brightons 2784 delegates, 41% of Greece’s 3,969 delegates, and 33% of Parma’s 652 delegates)

Powel: 181 (2% of Brightons 2784 delegates, 2% of Greece’s 3,969 delegates, and 7% of Parma’s 652 delegates)

the committees are weighted in relation to democratic voter turnout in that district in the governors race. the higher the turnout, the higher the weight. i could not tell you the actual ratio/formula though.

Delabarre,

It is important because Sandy Frankel’s 53% win in Brighton doesn’t weigh as much as Rick’s 56% win in Greece. Greece is bigger and has more voters. Although Dollinger will get 60% of the wighted votes of Parma, this won’t have as much impact on the total as Greece or Brighton or even one of the larger LDs in the city.

By any measure, Dollinger has taken the lead away from Frankel.

And great credit to you Willa Powell for being there, offering choice, continuing to make a statement, and put good ideas out there! You represent the true definition of democracy. You should be VERY proud of the person you are!

[...] Yesterday, we wrote about how Rick Dollinger had won the the Parma and Greece votes for designation in SD-56 and had mentioned that the county’s designation is determined by a weighted average of the various town. MCDC has kindly supplied me with documents explaining how much each town is weighted and how the whole thing is calculated. You can see these here and here. The bottom line is that the designations of Parma, Greece, and Brighton combined weight of about 7.4 thousand out of a total weight of 21.2 thousand. In other words, they count about one third of the total. So there’s a long way to go in the race for designation in SD-56. The current weighted totals are approximately: Dollinger: 52% [...]

Thank you, jimmybizbo. As I said to the Greece/Parma committee, my mission is to put a democrat in the 56th District Senate seat. If the titans are willing to come out this time around and vie for the seat, my role is to backstop them: to keep them honest, and to make sure we have a candidate NO MATTER WHAT. It doesn’t have to be me, it doesn’t have to be now. I intend to make sure there is a candidate on the ballot in 2008, 2010, 2012… (humbly) even if it has to be me.