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Collect County-Level Historical Presidential Election Results #18

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rachelanddata opened this issue Jan 30, 2017 · 5 comments
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rachelanddata commented Jan 30, 2017

We need historical county-level (at least 1988 and >) Presidential election results. Format should match that of the 2016 Election results on data.world

1988
1992
1996 Source - Scroll to the bottom to select a state and then select the "County Data (Graphs)" link. This is in progress, I will post the scraper script when complete - @rachelanddata
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2012

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2012 county election data completed

@jakemsnyder
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2000 county election data completed

@chrisdick14
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@pannellj is working on the earlier data. I will add her as an assignee once we add her to out GitHub Org.

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Is all of the data coming from uselectionatlas.org? Because that might run into a license issue.

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@juliannalangston we are checking into this to make sure we do not have a license issue. I will update when we get this figured out.

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