UNHackTheVOTE 2017

Please review our rules of conduct and let's unhack the problem of Gerrymandering.

This repo contains formatted district boundaries, census demographics, and election data for the following states:

• Michigan
• Ohio
• Texas

We've sourced this data from:

• The Harvard Election Data Archive
• Election Statistics, 1920 to Present
• TIGER Congressional District Boundaries from the Census (https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles/index.php)

Project ideas

• OpenElections - scrape data and contribute
• Congressional Demographics + District Boundaries
  • Visual analysis
• Election Results
  • Use merged State Legislative Data & Election Data GeoJson files
  • Run database analysis
  • Python or R
  • Network analysis
  • Graph databases - Neo4J
  • R visualization
  • Calculate Efficiency Gap
  • Algorithm to identify gerrymandering

Other great resources

• LA Times datadesk (https://github.com/datadesk/california-2016-election-precinct-maps) - California elections results
• Election-Geodata (https://github.com/nvkelso/election-geodata) - precinct shapes and vote results