elections.rst

This proposes to add some election related objects to OCD. It attempts to stay close to the VIP election specification. http://vip-specification.readthedocs.io/en/vip5/xml/index.html#elements

Implementation

Election

id

ocd identifier

identifiers

upstream identifer

name

name of the Election, I.e. 2016 General Election

date

date of the election

type

general, special, runoff, primary

administrator

reference to the Organization that administers the election

created_at

Time that this object was created at in the system, not to be confused with the start_date.

updated_at

Time that this object was last updated in the system.

sources

List of sources used in assembling this object. Has the following properties:

url

URL of the resource.

note

optional Description of what this source was used for.

extras

Common to all Open Civic Data types, the value is a key-value store suitable for storing arbitrary information not covered elsewhere.

CandidateContest

id

ocd identifier

election_id

reference to the Election this contest is part of

posts

References to the Post that this contest is for

created_at

Time that this object was created at in the system, not to be confused with the start_date.

updated_at

Time that this object was last updated in the system.

sources

List of sources used in assembling this object. Has the following properties:

url

URL of the resource.

note

optional Description of what this source was used for.

extras

Common to all Open Civic Data types, the value is a key-value store suitable for storing arbitrary information not covered elsewhere.

Candidacy

id

ocd identifier

candidate_contest_id

reference to a CandidateContest

person_id

reference to a Person