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PDFs? Range values? If I had to guess, I'd say they really don't want us to have this information.

• publicfig 12y ago
  Government work is still incredibly document driven and releasing information in PDFs tends to not only make sense given traditional workflows but also technological sense. We're far away from the days where PDFs threatened to bring your computer and connection to a halt. The range values make sense, as if there were no range values, and someone was found to be even minority off on what their contributions were, they could possibly be liable for that difference in accountability.
• atwebb 12y ago
  Maybe a bit but it also helps avoid people looking for every little trap: Representative X stated the value of a house was $751k. It appears that Zillow/Trulia/our in house expert appraiser thinks it's $1.5M. Why the discrepancy? Is the appraiser in their pocket? Who is going to prosecute this obvious attempt at circumventing property taxes? More at 11... Looking at my rep and some others it looks like hard amounts are required for things that are easier to give perfect amounts on i.e. speaking check from X, reimbursement from Y. Though I agree the format is awful and the scanner looks like it needed a good cleaning. Pure speculation on that front though, these were filled out by a staff, scanned on a cheap office machine, emailed to someone else, manipulated/printed/rescanned and eventually put online. Though, I'm may be a bit biased towards the mundane after watching the disclosure episode of West Wing last night...