Uniquely identify candidates across elections.

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Understanding Alabama Campaign Finance Data

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Uniquely identify candidates across elections. #94

Open mwleeds opened 9 years ago

mwleeds commented 9 years ago

The org IDs change for each election cycle even if it's the same person, so we probably want a way to tell if two parties are the same person. If we can find data on past election cycles we could use that, or we could just assume that two people with the same name aren't going to run for the same office.

mwleeds commented 9 years ago

Here are examples of this from the 2014 dataset:

Alaric May
Arthur Shores Lee
David Colston
Dickie Drake
Future PAC
Gilbert Self
Heather Sellers
Jim Barton
Joseph Lister Hubbard Jr.
Lillie Jones-Osborne
Linda Coats
Mary Moore
Ralph Carmichael
Richard Minor
Stacy George
Tonta Draper
William Donaldson