Convert 2016 general town & precinct results

[dwillis]

If you want to work on a town, add a comment saying which one you'd like to work on or email openelections@gmail.com. You can either email us finished CSV files or submit a pull request, whatever is easiest.

The results files you'll be converting can be found here. Most of these are either PDFs files, and in some cases you'll need to convert a number of office-specific files. For electronic PDFs, we recommend using Tabula, which is free, to extract data. The goal is to create a single CSV file for each county, with the following headers:

county, town, precinct, office, district, party, candidate, votes

The file name format for the CSV results should be:

20161108__ma__general__{town}__precinct.csv

• [x] Acton
• [ ] Arlington
• [ ] Auburn
• [x] Barnstable
• [x] Belmont
• [ ] Brookline
• [ ] Cambridge
• [x] Chelmsford
• [ ] Danvers
• [x] Dedham
• [x] Falmouth
• [ ] Fitchburg
• [x] Freetown
• [ ] Gloucester
• [ ] Hingham
• [ ] Lexington
• [ ] Lynn
• [ ] Malden
• [ ] Melrose
• [ ] Middleborough
• [ ] Millbury
• [ ] Needham
• [ ] North Andover
• [ ] Natick
• [ ] Plymouth
• [x] Somerset
• [ ] Somerville
• [x] Spencer
• [ ] Walpole
• [ ] Worcester

[dwillis]

Hey all (especially @eric-famiglietti) - many thanks for your hard work on converting these files. It looks like the state election results site has the same elements, so I'm going to fill in the remainder of the towns and close this issue. If you have the time and interest, we can plug you into another state.