Geoffrey Hing
Geoffrey Hing
Washington has a diversity of results in varying formats and data structure, especially at the precinct level. However, through 2007, the results are from the same database dump and have...
Now that #192 is fixed, see if it eliminates the need for BulkInsertBuffer in the Maryland transforms.
We should decide on a convention for linking to raw data that isn't from an official state elections website. This is needed when we received data on DVD or via...
While it doesn't seem updating a file that doesn't change via the API will create a new commit, it would be nice to save the bandwidth and check if the...
Though the pre-2007 results (see #144) and the county-level are in CSV format with fairly consistent structure, there are a number of results, especially at the precinct-level that require conversion....
For example, in the 2008 general presidential contest, http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2008/results/general/gen_detail_results_2008_4_BOT001-.html, Obama had 332,396 votes in Prince George's county. http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2008/election_data/Prince_Georges_County_2008_General.csv lists only 331924 votes. For that particular contest, all the other county...
Iowa does not indicate winners in its results PDFs but instead provides a separate winner list PDF. Examples: - [county-level results PDF](http://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2012/general/canvsummary.pdf) - [winner list](http://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2012/general/Winnerlist.pdf) Should we download/parse the winners...
When writing validators that check for an expected number of results, it's useful to have a sense of the electoral geography of the state including: - Counties - Congressional districts...
WIP draft of this can be found in [Code Style Guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUR5ykUultDOqNoo8Q8glBEkRX5XXKtbdhekEgEXWnk/edit) in our shared GDocs directory.