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Washington loader #149

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ghing opened this issue Jun 9, 2014 · 2 comments
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Washington loader #149

ghing opened this issue Jun 9, 2014 · 2 comments
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ghing commented Jun 9, 2014

Washington has a diversity of results in varying formats and data structure, especially at the precinct level.

However, through 2007, the results are from the same database dump and have a consistent format. Following that there are consistently county-level results available in CSV. Starting in 2012, there are precinct-level CSV files available.

When implementing the loader, get the 2000-2007 results working first, then county/precinct-level CSV. Excel/PDF precinct level data should be the last priority.
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I ran into this today with my loader: most of Washington's CSV files for the counties don't have any relevant information. Since openstates doesn't really want "SCHOOL DISTRICT 128 - LAMONT Position 5", the loader ends up ignoring like 2/3 of all the files.

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Initial pull for refactoring: #186

ghing added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 8, 2014
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s/_xls_file_handle/xls_file_path/gc
e5b7d67 
Update the Washington loader to use _xls_file_path property of
BaseDatasource instead of the old, poorly named _xls_file_handle
method.  The Datasource API was changed in
5870dd6

Addresses #149
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Clarify bad Washington filenames
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Add comment specifying that the CSVs are missing and the Excel
files are hard to deal with.  Order files by election, in
ascending order, for easier future review.

Addresses #149
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