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Pre-processed election results for Wisconsin elections
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Extra spaces in office, ward, and candidate fields #38

Closed davipo closed 6 years ago

davipo commented 6 years ago

The first data example in Issue #37 shows a double space in the office name. Searching for more, I found 3172 double spaces in 25 results files. These are in the input data, but should be removed for consistency.

davipo commented 6 years ago

I revised cleaner.clean_string() to remove double spaces. This handles all text fields except party. Another search revealed a triple space in one candidate's name in the 2012-08-14 State Assembly district 12 race. Revised clean_particular() to handle that.