Rework AB dates to allow for multiple specials

[katherinepdavis]

And all to be added/removed/changed via translations file

[karpet]

yes I was thinking this morning about the need for this. I think what we want is to be able to define an array (list) of elections with dates. It might require a combination of translations and some other mechanism. Maybe even a separate elections.json file.

[katherinepdavis]

I did some research into how many specials there are in a given year, and the answer was "quite a few." Apparently there are lots of school bond issues and that kind of thing in the spring now that they've changed local elections to the fall.

A better solution here may be to allow user input on the date on the form, which is more like replicating a paper form anyway. Is that workable? Any sense of how many hours it would take @frankwiles ?

[frankwiles]

@katherinepdavis so let the user punch in their own date? Wouldn't that likely cause a bunch of errors when they get it wrong? even simply dd/mm/yyyy vs mm/dd/yyyy type issues?

[katherinepdavis]

Yeah some data validation is probably required. The only input we would want would be a date. On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:53 PM Frank Wiles notifications@github.com wrote:

@katherinepdavis https://github.com/katherinepdavis so let the user punch in their own date? Wouldn't that likely cause a bunch of errors when they get it wrong? even simply dd/mm/yyyy vs mm/dd/yyyy type issues?

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[katherinepdavis]

Bumping this one - I got another request for it today. How tough would it be to add a "Special" option and then let the user enter a date? @frankwiles @karpet

[karpet]

We can tackle this as part of v3