Re: [election-services] Twitter and Elections / Action Groups / Party apparatus and Open Sourced Democracy

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@berkeley.edu>]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:31 AM, David RR Webber (XML) <david@drrw.info> wrote:
>
> What we're missing is that vision from local election officials - that they
> too can easily do what California is doing - from a simple SQL database and
> some scripting.  Again - some open source toolkit in that area for election
> reporting would be cool to see...

Is this within-scope for EML or would it require another project of
this TC?  One of the problems we've found in academic endeavors (and
I'm certain the CA SoS faced this in aggregating results for their EML
feed) is that frequently the database reports produced by EMS' are
entirely structured for presentation (and typically for PDF... which
is very hard to do things with!) instead of analysis. best, Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
http://josephhall.org/