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Missing committee #24

Closed fgregg closed 10 years ago

fgregg commented 10 years ago

Seem to be missing a committee for proco joe

http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/CommitteeDetailCandidates.aspx?id=24042

evz commented 10 years ago

@fgregg So, I know you probably already know this but, it would seem that there are three entries for Proco Joe in on the Illinois Elections site, one for each of the three offices he has run for:

Senator 2nd district: http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/CandidateDetail.aspx?ID=22068

Alderman: http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/CandidateDetail.aspx?ID=24885

Ward committeeman: http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/CandidateDetail.aspx?ID=26344

The reason why this committee did not get matched up with the candidate record that we have for him is because it is associated with the third candidate record and not the one for alderman (which has a different ID). I have a record for the committee, it's just not associated with him.

I'm thinking this probably is the only case where there is a committee that is relevant but is not associated the way we'd expect on the site. Is this a common enough case? Where a committeeman ends up an alderman (or vice versa)? Should I start scraping committeeman as well? It seems like there might be another manual step in there matching committeemen records with aldermen records. Anyways, thoughts?

fgregg commented 10 years ago

Let's hand it in the application layer for now. We are doing something similar for Deb Mell.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Eric van Zanten notifications@github.comwrote:

@fgregg https://github.com/fgregg So, I know you probably already know this but, it would seem that there are three entries for Proco Joe in on the Illinois Elections site, one for each of the three offices he has run for:

Senator 2nd district:

http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/CandidateDetail.aspx?ID=22068

Alderman:

http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/CandidateDetail.aspx?ID=24885

Ward committeeman:

http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/CandidateDetail.aspx?ID=26344

The reason why this committee did not get matched up with the candidate record that we have for him is because it is associated with the third candidate record and not the one for alderman (which has a different ID). I have a record for the committee, it's just not associated with him.

I'm thinking this probably is the only case where there is a committee that is relevant but is not associated the way we'd expect on the site. Is this a common enough case? Where a committeeman ends up an alderman (or vice versa)? Should I start scraping committeeman as well? It seems like there might be another manual step in there matching committeemen records with aldermen records. Anyways, thoughts?

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