Josh Jacobson
@districtjosh
He/him. Personal account. 1E06 Commissioner. Chair, ANC 1E. YIMBY who walks and bikes.🌱🌇🏘️🏢. @ward1democrats.org treasurer. See districtjosh.com for my civic tech projects.
I made DC Regulations easier to read! Why did I bother with this? To read the current regs, you need to find the section and then open up a .doc or .docx file, and it's difficult to jump between sections. It's bothered me when investigating something in code in the past (1/2)
Fine to disagree on tax policy, but not fine to work with GOP to significantly limit DC home rule. If DoorDash thinks DC will accept them intervening in our tax code, they don't deserve our business. I've deleted my DoorDash account and encourage others to do the same.
Added more breakdowns and improved the visualizations on my site. Checkout the pairwise matchups! And the number of ballots without a first choice.
Sort of, but not easily. Looking at the outer ring, you can see JLG 1st and Kenyan 2nd is actually the most common in mayoral race (besides JLG first and no other candidate) I'm going to update the colors so that the outer ring matches the candidate in that ranking and not the initial candidate.
Ahh I surface some of this in the sunburst chart at the bottom! dcelections.districtjosh.com/cvr.html
Seems like the Ward 1 cross endorsement had limited impact. Roughly an equal amount of Rashida voters ranked Miguel and Aparna second. Same goes with Miguel's 2nd rankings. You can drill into more details on the rankings in the sunburst chart at the bottom. (2/3)
BOE released more data today so we can do our own calculations on RCV! Topline for head-to-heads: - W1: @aparnafordc.bsky.social - 63.6% - Mayor: @janeese4dc.bsky.social - 60% - At Large: @repoyedc.bsky.social - 63.8% More below! (1/3)
Check out a new rodent petition tool! This makes it easier to organize your neighbors and handles filling out the PDF that goes to rodent control.
One of my favorite things about Snap311 is that it has automated detection for incidents such as media uploads apparently being broken for all of 311 right now... snap311.app/status/
Following up on some questions from @chenderson.bsky.social re 311 and rodent trends. Writing up something longer, but I found this trend interesting. It is taking the city much longer to close out rodent abatement tickets in Ward 5 recently. cc @cmzparker5.bsky.social
DC Health released a new rodent dashboard... but it is very difficult to use on mobile and has incorrect data. So I made my own site with the linked resources and accurate data. (1/4)
Another ballot drop today. Expect this to be the last! 1k more Dem ballots
Decided to test how much faster Snap311 is than the DC311 app. 21 seconds vs 72 seconds for a single request from app open. Thinking about how much time people waste because DC Gov isn’t interested in improving the user experience. Over 100 requests, this is >1 hr wasted
My neighbor built a functioning 311 app in a matter of hours while it took OUC more than 6 weeks to fix their broken app. Throughout this process, OUC has been more interested in protecting themselves than learning from his app.
You can get a beta version of the app here! One thing I love about it is that when 311 is down, it queues your submissions so they don’t get lost! snap311.app
Used my neighbors Snap311 app to report 4 sidewalk repair issues on a walk with my baby. Took me <1 minute each rather than the 3 I’m used to with the official app 🥰
New ballot drop! My website is updated, and Free DC Slate is now in the lead in all 7 committeewomen seats 🥰
Who are these people who cast a write-in for their first vote and then ranked other choices??
I updated my site to include RCV data with a sankey diagram that allows you to pan and zoom!
Another BOE ballot drop! No RCV yet, but I'm keeping an eye out for that too. +6.5k ballots
Hard to be taken seriously as the paper of record in DC when you don’t know that it’s called DC Council (and not “city council”)
DC BOE dropped another set of ballots! Another 2.5k. JLG is inching ever so closer to beating McDuffie in Ward 3.
My voting website auto deploy worked, and the BOE results from 10 minutes ago are live! (1/2)
Wanted to remind folks about the crowd sourced pool and splash pad status resource I created! I've heard a lot of complaints from parents about a children's pool being closed or a splash pad not being turned on, and this not being reflect anywhere online. (1/4)
I met with @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social's office yesterday to discuss concerns with the 311 app. We provided some recommendations, and I will continue to work with her office on pushing OUC to do better. (1/2)
Her lead is also quite commanding - looking at the 2nd place finisher in each precinct, only Miguel came close in the U Street Corridor (P137). Miguel received 27.7% to Aparna's 28.3%. Otherwise, Aparna has a double digit percentage lead in every other precinct.