Using the PDFs here for primary elections, parse PDFs into CSV files for president, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and state legislative offices. Include the voter turnout PDF for registered voters and ballots cast.
The office names should be: President, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, State Senate, and General Assembly. Include the district numbers for the last three offices.
You can use Tabula to convert the PDFs, or another tool like pdftotext.
You'll end up with these files:
[x] 20180605__nj__primary__county.csv
[x] 20170605__nj__primary__county.csv
[x] 20150602__nj__primary__county.csv
[x] 20140603__nj__primary__county.csv
[x] 20130604__nj__primary__county.csv
[x] 20120605__nj__primary__county.csv
[x] 20110607__nj__primary__county.csv
[x] 20100608__nj__primary__county.csv
The county-level file will have a header row like this: county, office, district, party, candidate, votes
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Using the PDFs here for primary elections, parse PDFs into CSV files for president, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and state legislative offices. Include the voter turnout PDF for registered voters and ballots cast.
The office names should be:
President,U.S. Senate,U.S. House,State Senate, andGeneral Assembly. Include the district numbers for the last three offices.You can use Tabula to convert the PDFs, or another tool like pdftotext.
You'll end up with these files:
20180605__nj__primary__county.csv20170605__nj__primary__county.csv20150602__nj__primary__county.csv20140603__nj__primary__county.csv20130604__nj__primary__county.csv20120605__nj__primary__county.csv20110607__nj__primary__county.csv20100608__nj__primary__county.csvThe county-level file will have a header row like this:
county,office,district,party,candidate,votes