rji-futures-lab / django-fcc-opif

For extracting and analyzing data from the FCC Public Inspection files
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Integrate campaign finance committee data #45

Open gordonje opened 4 years ago

gordonje commented 4 years ago

When we process a new file from the FCC, we want to attempt to resolve the name of the campaign committee to a distinct committee defined by the appropriate election authority (e.g., the FEC for federal elections and MEC for Missouri's state and local elections).

For federal elections, we can use ProPublica's Campaign Finance API, which has an endpoint for searching for a committee by name and cycle.