New Jersey

[kcoronel]

Overview

The database or data has some formatting or other issues that need to be resolved before it can be imported.

Action Items

• [x] Data Collection Design
  • [x] Review Secretary of State Website
  • [x] Call a County starting from the first until you reach one that can validate the data with you.
    • [x] Checking the data that we have is correct
    • [x] Gathering data for fields that are empty
    • [x] Asking if there is anything else we should know
  • [x] Update Location Validation Test Sheet
  • [x] Edit the issue Action Items to reflect findings
• [x] Data Scientist/Scrapers
  • [x] Add the following columns to your data schema
    • [x] has_dropoff_location
    • [x] has_phone_number
    • [x] state_2 (more details below)
    • [x] inactive
    • [x] hours
    • [x] rules
    • [x] display_notes
    • [x] where
    • [x] start_date
    • [x] accessibility
  • [x] Delete the following fields
    • [x] record_number
    • [x] county_state
    • [x] name
    • [x] scrapper
    • [x] social
    • [x] locations_copy_4
    • [x] ballot_drop_off_location
    • [x] volunteers_validation_copy
    • [x] volunteers_scraper_copy
  • [x] Rename the following fields
    • [x] validate_url to source_data
  • [x] If Hours are available add them to the sheet by using the following convention (removing any info about days they are closed e.g. closed sat and sun, unless it refers to a specific date they are closed): MONDAY-FRIDAY:1:00 PM-4:30PM or Monday-Friday:7:00-12:00
• [x] Address fields needs to be broken up into individual components (address_1 and address_2)

  • address_1 = Street name and address #
  • address_2 = suite # or room #, etc
  • city = city name
  • state = state name spelled out
  • state_2 = two-letter abbreviation for the address (for some states the location is in a different state than the voting district (crazy I know. But this is why there is a state field separate which is supposed to be the state spelled out and that is the jurisdiction, not the physical location)

Resources

Google Sheet

[aNullValue]

New Jersey's data is not suitable for import.

The existing spreadsheet must be preserved intact, as it contains the offices to which people can return ballots. But we additionally need the ballot drop boxes page to be scraped into a new spreadsheet/tab so that it can be imported at the same time:

https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/vote-secure-drop-boxes.shtml

[aNullValue]

I manually scraped that other page myself, merged the results together, and then processed them.