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Pre-processed results for Oregon elections
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2018 Lane County primary results #180

Closed jheasly closed 5 years ago

jheasly commented 5 years ago

There're vote Total rows in the results (157 instances). Would be happy to submit a fix, but just wanted to make sure before I did it that it needs doing, i.e., there isn't a workaround in the ingestion process or something like that.

nk9 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for asking. They are there to allow checksumming the various votes per precinct, etc. Please leave them in place.

jheasly commented 5 years ago

Re: checksumming Neat! I'm an argparse newb. Much to learn from your example.
Yeah, figured the Total is useful to have, but didn't see it in the example format nor in the one other county I randomly checked, so was just curious.
Another thing I'm curious about; you don't happen to know if when @dwillis made the .csv he did it programmatically (w/ some post cleanup perhaps) or if he manually Tabula'd the 40-ish PDF pages that held the data?

nk9 commented 5 years ago

Would be a good idea to have it in the example format. I wonder if that's just a bit out of date. It's easier in some states than others, though. Oregon is a very simple one compared to e.g. New York.

I don't know for sure how @dwillis did it this year, but I presume it was with Tabula from the source files.

dwillis commented 5 years ago

@jheasly I dumped out the text (preserving the layout) using XPDF and then did some cleanup work on it.

jheasly commented 5 years ago

Interesting, thanks! I will check out XPDF.