We provide an easy-to-use, modern-era database with voter files for each of the fifty states. It uses a data model that represents a national voter file as well as associated campaign measures in a shared data warehouse.
We want to pull politics into the 21st century, and we're starting from the ground up.
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Reliable, up-to-date voter data for every state in the country (including address changes, and redrawn districts)
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Per-household insights, done by grouping voters together based on address
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Per-voter insights, such as when people change their names and genders
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And for thousands to use our voter file to power their campaigns' donation, canvassing, and phonebanking efforts!
Here's the bulk of the work:
- Collect voter files for every state and store them securely.
- Write state-specific Python scripts to turn them into a standardized input file.
- Make sure that data is clean and consistent nationally.
- Load that data into a queryable database using Pentaho.
- Build a simple, accessible, easy-to-vend API for consumers.