CA to Provide Precinct-Level Data

Mon Nov 16 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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Today, UC Berkeley Professors Philip Stark, Jasjeet Sekhon and Henry Brady, along with me, sent the California Secretary of State a brief comment about her effort to provide precinct-level elections data for all 58 California counties.

We applaud the project and are very excited about the prospects of precinct-level data from each county in near real time. In the comment, we point out how the data isn't nearly as usable as it could be and how the focus right now should be on making sure that counties can get the data out of their back-end systems and then the SoS (with help, if she wants it!) can worry about transforming the data into something more usable.

Find the PDF of the comment here:
http://josephhall.org/papers/county-data-comments-final.pdf