Openelections Frontend

Web entry point for OpenElections project status and data.

Spec

The finished product will include the following:

• Choropleth map that shows progress on collecting metadata (i.e. "not started", "in progress", "up-to-date")
• Names of each U.S. state's adopter(s)
• Count of how many elections have been covered for a particular state
• Date for when the data was last updated for a particular state
• Raw result files available for download by state, year and election type (i.e. Democratic or Republican primary, general, special, runoff)
• List of available file types for each state, year and election
• Direct link to the source for each state, year and election
• Way to download national data or all the states

Ideas for design

• Interactive map color-coded by status
• Sidebar for displaying a state's data
  • Icons or color-coding by election type
  • Icons indicating file type
  • Dropdown menu to download all the data for a particular year or election type
  • Filter by election type

Notes

Metadata API

This will eventually be wired to live data via an endpoint of the OpenElections Metadata API.

Here's an example request for one state's metadata:

GET http://openelections.net/api/v1/election/?state__postal=MD&format=json&limit=0

The API is built using Tastypie, so there are a number of Django-ORM-like filters available. For instance, if it's easier to use lower-case state abbreviations:

GET http://openelections.net/api/v1/election/?state__postal__iexact=md&format=json&limit=0

OpenElections Data Process

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1BajHKetb5-_Ap-c0RZmMUh9LsMxDX9uZLNCnzfjTZp8/edit

Contributors

• Margie Roswell (@mroswell)
• Chloe Whiteaker