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I mean look at this...

I think everything is scraped correctly, but it's worth it to site my sources

Back End
Determine incumbent by looking at last election's winner. Add that to the race summary JSON.

Front End
The results panel (and any future popups) should indicate which candidate is the incumbent with an asterisk*

Default to the first election, since it's the most recent.

Default to the first race, since, in general, it'll be mayor or at large anyway.

Gotta know if people are visiting my site

Hovering over a precinct should show a popup that shows the precinct specific results

If you want to flip though the races in an election, you have to open the select menu and select the next one.

Might be easier to just have a button you can click to jump to the next item in the list

Boston's got some big parks, cemeteries, industrial areas, a big pond, and a big airport. It's funny having dots in those places. It also makes those districts seem sparsely populated.

The idea

• create a tessellation over Boston and use land-use data from the BPDA to determine which tiles shouldn't have dots in them.
• I wouldn't want to mess with the precinct GeoJSONs, but I could have a geojson specifying the area to not have dots, and use that as a filter when calculating locations for dots.

p.s. I could get open space data, but after trying it I think it's kind of annoying... because there are other non-open-space areas that I don't want dots in (e.g. airport, castle island)... and the open space polygons leave out roads between them, and I don't want to put dots on Walk Hill Street, for example.

In the week or two following and election (especially the day of!) I'll want to be able to update results without a GitHub pages deploy. I'm thinking that results can be put in Firebase with the same json format as all other files. Then I can run a script to update firebase with scraped data from Boston Open Election Results Portal and/or unofficial results from the city.

Thoughts:

• The front-end might want to subscribe to changes of that Firebase document?
• I currently set the order and color of candidates based on their standing, if standings change as results change then colors will flip which could be confusing.
• I'll want some way to automatically run the scraping script

Figure out why tailwind doesn't make my select boxes look pretty in Safari 😠

idk what I'm doing.

There some sort of caching going on, but... idrk what's going on. May be an issue if I change one of those cached files. Need to set some sort of expiration?

Also, have a better name for the cache than my-cache

To reproduce:

1. select an election
2. select "Choose an election"

You'll get this in the console:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'geometry') at HTMLSelectElement.electionDidChange (index.js:134:77)

When someone selects a district election, the map should zoom/pan to that district