Carl Hage

You can see an example of ballot designations in this 2016 presidential election ballot. Presidential candidates have no designation, there are partisan offices with a party name as well as...

The Person.Profession is a misuse of Candidate.BallotDesignation. It's incorrectly used by LA to shoehorn in the missing actual definition. The same person can be a candidate for 2 offices, and...

Looks good to me. I assume there are version-specific documents in the directories? Can you give an example of a reference, e.g. I presume you might include the URL to...

The /v#/ directory and NIST_name.xsd look good (I assume you meant 1500 instead of 2500) In my opinion, the prefix "midas.nist.gov/....." is almost guaranteed to be non-permanent. I think it...

To elaborate, the issue is converting a contest/candidate list into something machine readable. Typically, contests have an abbreviated free-form title (it's nice to see the `` has abbreviated name, name,...

I've done my share of Sisyphean parsing of abbreviated contest titles. That's the point-- there should be a way to (optionally) represent the parsed composition of a contest as it...