[open-government] [PMO Network] Countries with open data sets on "who is on your ballot"?

Tue Mar 24 20:47:04 UTC 2015

Hi,

In the Netherlands none of the votings councils (either the national,
or the provincial/municipal ones) do not publish this as open data.
They do however publish PDF files with this information. We (the Open
State Foundation) have been converting these to JSON format for a few
years now. You can see the Github repository here:

https://github.com/openstate/openkandidatenlijsten

We are doing this to put pressure on the voting council to publish
this as open data. Hopefully they'll listen sooner than later :) (Note
that for municipal election this process is extremely difficult as
there isn't necessarily a single format for the PDFs. And most
municipalities don't event post the PDF files on their website!)

Greetings,

Breyten

2015-03-24 19:27 GMT+01:00 Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org>:
> Does your country or state/province provide open data on who is one
> your election ballot?
>
> If yes, let me know: clift at e-democracy.org
>
> One of the impetuses for _crowd-sourcing)_ this data with
> YourNextMP.com and the global interest coming together in a Knight
> News Challenge proposal - http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge - is
> that this data simply does not exist in a central location in most
> places.
>
> Other than the U.S. foundation/.com world putting together -
> https://www.votinginfoproject.org - by cobbling together basic
> candidate data (not increasingly crucial social media links however)
> from multiple states, I am not personally aware of data sources in
> other countries.
>
> Are you?
>
> The key innovation with the YNMP approach is what getting fundamental
> election data into the public domain can unleash -
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/democracy-club/CBMf7YJblsk-
> when it goes beyond the just the name, party, and position being
> sought.
>
> Thanks,
> Steven Clift
>
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