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Election Results: Data-Wrangling Travis County

Congratulations if you are reading this post, after having even glanced at the predecessor about Ramsey County data wrangling — one of the longer and geekier posts in recent times at TrustTheVote. There is a similar but shorter story about our work with Travis County Texas. As with Ramsey, we started with a bunch of stuff … Continued

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Election Results: Data-Wrangling Ramsey County

Next up are several overdue reports on data wrangling of county level election data, that is, working with election officials to get legacy data needed for election results; and then putting the data into practical use. It’s where we write software to chew up whatever data we get, put it in a backend system, re-arrange … Continued

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Not Just Election Night: VoteStream

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but if you want people to understand what a software package does, it needs a good name. In our Election Night Reporting System project, we’ve learned that it’s not just about election night, and it’s not just about reporting either. Even before election night, a … Continued

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Towards Standardized Election Results Data Reporting

Now that we are a ways into our “Election Night Reporting System” project, we want to start sharing some of what we are learning.  We had talked about a dedicated Wiki or some such, but our time was better spent digging into the assignment graciously supported by the Knight Foundation Prototype Fund.  Perhaps the best … Continued

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