epsi talk: electoral data the future is near
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The future of electoraldata is near
By @ajslaghu
Disclaimer: Was part of the gov’t comittee on EML NL
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“Not-for-profit for the EU aiming toimprove digital transparancy and reapbenefits from this transparancy”
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Thematic Networks Hackathons Community API’s
Community Platforms Community Tools Competitions
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A new standard for electiondata
Based on intl OASIS EML
• only localises
• It’s a just format• The spec is CC0 (good!)
Explain or comply for formal elections
• Dutch water politics excluded
• Closed elections (House of Lords excluded)
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The data
• Candidates• Name(s), Adres, City, Postal, DOB, Agent, Gender, Contac
tdetails, Party
• Parties• Name, party to share excess votes with
• Countings of voting - stations, local bureaus, -hubs , masterhubs and central voting authority per candidate
• Aggegrate count of all votes
• Results of the election
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How it’s used in practice
It’s already in use for reporting election results to the nationwide election board
• By means of pushing final XML data to a centralserver
• Made for counting if all votes are count. The probably missed some votingstations earlier on ;-D
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Enter open data
When the candidates & parties are final, publish it
ASAP?
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Enter open data
3 weeks late
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Enter open data
No Bulk
No license
Also toolate
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Huh? They actuallyphone the local
governments
Realtime wouldbe nice
Even better: duringthe counting
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Wrap up
• We got awesome standard, let’s use it!
• But a long road ahead and how to put it to use• Speeding up publishing to RT
• Getting proper licenses
• And accessible historical data
• Re-use is seriously hindered
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Lex Slaghuis (@ajslaghu)