2020 General Election Precinct Results

[dwillis]

Using Tabula, OCR or whatever method you can, parse precinct-level results for the following counties. Original sources are in the sources-pa repository.

The goal is to create a single CSV file for each county, with the following headers:

county, precinct, office, district, party, candidate, votes

If the county file also provides a breakdown of votes by method, include that using the following headers:

early_voting, election_day, provisional, absentee

Include the following offices:

• Registered Voters (if available)
• Ballots Cast (if available)
• Straight Party
• President
• U.S. House
• Attorney General
• Auditor General
• State Treasurer
• State Senate
• General Assembly

The CSV files should be named 20201103__pa__general__{county}__precinct.csv. Here's an example finished file: https://github.com/openelections/openelections-data-pa/blob/master/2020/20200602__pa__primary__elk__precinct.csv.

• Adams
• Allegheny
• Armstrong
• Beaver
• Bedford
• Berks
• Blair
• Bradford
• Bucks
• Butler
• Cambria
• Cameron
• Carbon
• Centre
• Chester
• Clarion
• Clearfield
• Clinton
• Columbia
• Crawford
• Cumberland
• Dauphin
• Delaware
• Elk
• Erie
• Fayette
• Forest
• Franklin
• Fulton
• Greene
• Huntingdon
• Indiana
• Jefferson
• Juniata
• Lackawanna
• Lancaster
• Lawrence
• Lebanon
• Lehigh
• Luzerne
• Lycoming
• McKean
• Mercer
• Mifflin
• Monroe
• Montgomery
• Montour
• Northampton
• Northumberland
• Perry
• Philadelphia
• Pike
• Potter
• Schuylkill
• Snyder
• Somerset
• Sullivan
• Susquehanna
• Tioga
• Union
• Venango
• Warren
• Washington
• Wayne
• Westmoreland
• Wyoming
• York

[mileswwatkins]

Thanks as always for y'all's hard work here! A few initial issues I've experienced when using these precinct-level CSVs:

• Butler County is missing the precincts alphabetically from Valencia to Worth
• Fulton County's header row has a trailing (space) character
• Fulton County has a bunch of empty rows at the bottom, not sure if they're supposed to be populated with non-null values
• Wyoming County header has a trailing (space) character after precinct

[mileswwatkins]

Perry County's New Buffalo is missing from the CSV, probably failed to parse from the PDF because its name is right before a page break:

[mileswwatkins]

Here's my last set of notes for today. Thank you again for the hard work!

• Greene County is missing President rows for the CENTER precinct, although these appear in the PDF source.
• York County is missing President rows for Newberry Township 1, perhaps because that row is at a page break in the PDF:

- Clarion County is missing `President` rows for the `32.01 - Strattanville Borough` precinct, perhaps because of the PDF's page break as well:

[dwillis]

@mileswwatkins many thanks for these - we'll get on them.

[mileswwatkins]

Oh, and Erie County's 40001 - WAYNE TOWNSHIP has a trailing space in its precinct name

[mileswwatkins]

Blair County's CSV failed to extract the full/distinct precinct names from the ElectionWare PDFs.

Eg, Altoona Ward 2, Precinct 2 in the PDF appears as only Altoona Ward 2 in the CSV, and similar with Blair Township, District 3 becoming Blair Township, etc. (The county has lots and lots of these numbered precincts, FWIW.)

[dwillis]

@mileswwatkins Ok, I believe all of these issues have been resolved.

[mileswwatkins]

Thank you so much, @dwillis! Just finished another round of QA, including comparing county vote totals against AP/Edison, and everything looks great.

The largest discrepancy is that Beaver County is a couple thousand votes short (y'all have an older unofficial-results PDF instead of the final/official results currently on their site), but doesn't affect my use case :)

[dwillis]

@mileswwatkins awesome, thanks for letting me know. We've updated Beaver.