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A Python wrapper for the Associated Press' U.S. election data service.
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Something looks off with Alaska counties/reporting units #73

Closed anthonyjpesce closed 12 years ago

anthonyjpesce commented 12 years ago

Haven't had a chance to dive in yet, but it looks like we may have a New Hampshire problem.

anthonyjpesce commented 12 years ago

Alaska is coming over as one reporting unit, with no counties. Also, Kalawao County in Hawaii is not coming over. But it looks like it's very small, and it's possible AP rolls it up with Maui. We should ask.

eads commented 12 years ago

Oddly enough I was reading about this today when looking into how many counties there are in the US: Alaska doesn't have counties, it has boroughs. Most of the land area of the state is part of the "Unorganized Borough": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorganized_Borough

anthonyjpesce commented 12 years ago

Oh interesting. I grabbed the shapes from the Census Bureau though, which is odd. Anyway, it's easy enough to switch it over to the full state shape if we have to.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:55 PM, David Eads notifications@github.comwrote:

Oddly enough I was reading about this today when looking into how many counties there are in the US: Alaska doesn't have counties, it has boroughs. Most of the land area of the state is part of the "Unorganized Borough": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unorganized_Borough

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anthonyjpesce commented 12 years ago

The 2008 map from NYT had Alaska consolidated: http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html

palewire commented 12 years ago

They return a limited set of counties for Alaska and Hawaii. Here is the email I received from AP.

Ben, we tabulate only at the state level for AK (no county level results) so the “county” results same as state level. For HI, there are 4 counties that will have votes. Hawaii does have a fifth county (Kalawao) but it does not have county elections - those votes are reflected in the Maui County tabulation.