election-money

Bulk downloads of Illinois campaign finance data from the Illinois State Board of Elections going back to 1994

Running locally

git clone git@github.com:datamade/il-elections-bulk-download.git
cd il-elections-bulk-download

# to run locally
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

navigate to http://localhost:9999/

dependencies

We used the following open source tools:

Flask - python web framework
boto - python interface to Amazon Web Services
Bootstrap - Responsive HTML, CSS and Javascript framework

Team

Derek Eder - front end
Eric van Zanten - data scraping

Errors / Bugs

If something is not behaving intuitively, it is a bug, and should be reported. Report it here: https://github.com/datamade/il-elections-bulk-download/issues

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

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