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by reco 2057 days ago
Networks all get their data from 1 of 2 places. Edison research or the AP.

Those two firms put in a lot of effort in collecting the latest data from the various state/county/city websites. All of which report there data differently, and is why everyone seems to have a slightly different total. I’m not sure if AP or Edison provide a free api nor not, but without using them as an aggregator collecting all that data independently is pretty much impossible.

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Looks like AP does have an api https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/. But I’m not sure how you can get an api key.