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by clarge1120 1955 days ago
The voting data consists of four tables:

candidates, counties, precincts, vote_tallies

Without a set of open tables for voters and votes there is no chain of custody. Without a chain of custody this data is academic at best. There is no reliable way to verify it.

Those two tables remove privacy from the voter, and open up the risk of voter intimidation, but that doesn’t change the fact that this data, and any findings associated with it, are, at best, interesting.

The Bounty concept, on the other hand, is commendable.