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Scrapers for NMID
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Is it possible to identify individuals with missing financial disclosures? #5

Open hancush opened 10 months ago

hancush commented 10 months ago

That's a story in and of itself! Can we tell from the scrape (or data in the portal) who should file a disclosure, but hasn't?

fgregg commented 10 months ago

According to the Secretary of State's website three groups are required to file disclosures:

  1. A person holding a legislative or statewide office
  2. A candidate for legislative or statewide office
  3. A state agency head, an official whose appointment to a board or commission is subject to confirmation by the senate, a member of the insurance nominating committee or a member of the state ethics commission.

We should have a list of the first two groups because they would have also made campaign finance disclosures. The third group would probably require some shoe leather to identify all the individuals.

fgregg commented 10 months ago

if i was doing this, i would probably start with sitting elected representatives and senators.

hancush commented 10 months ago

@fgregg Is the scraped data a list of all people who have filed disclosures, or is it a list of all people who should file disclosures, i.e., we could left join the list of filers with filings to see who hasn't filed?

fgregg commented 10 months ago

it's people who have filed a disclosure. so, unfortunately, no left join is possible.