Open dwillis opened 6 years ago
@dwillis , I have parsed Sabine county but have a couple of questions:
Early votes are not broken down by precinct. The example shown above has an "early_votes" column per precinct. Based on the original post I have ignored this variable. Is this correct?
Candidate is not broken down by party. Does this require manual lookup or is there a reference table available?
What types of offices do "district" apply? I can easily parse "US Rep", "Member State Board of Education", "State Senator", and "State Rep". I did not include "Chief Justice, 12th Court of Appeals District", "District Judge, 273rd Judicial District".
Hey @timtrice, thanks!
Hey @dwillis! I'm working on the Fort Bend county data. I have a few questions:
Hi @AngeloCioffi! Thanks for your questions:
Using Tabula, OCR or whatever method you can, parse precinct-level results for the following counties. Original sources are in the sources-tx repository.
The goal is to create a single CSV file for each county, with the following headers:
county
,precinct
,office
,district
,party
,candidate
,votes
If the county file also provides a breakdown of votes by method, include that using the following headers:
early_voting
,election_day
,provisional
Include the following offices:
The CSV files should be named
20141104__tx__general__{county}__precinct.csv
. Here's an example finished file from 2016: https://github.com/openelections/openelections-data-tx/blob/master/2016/20161108__tx__general__sabine__precinct.csv.