The future of electoraldata is near

By @ajslaghu

Disclaimer: Was part of the gov’t comittee on EML NL

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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)

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

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

Enter open data

When the candidates & parties are final, publish it

ASAP?

Enter open data

PDF

3 weeks late

Enter open data

No Bulk

No license

Also toolate

Huh? They actuallyphone the local

governments

Realtime wouldbe nice

Even better: duringthe counting

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)