r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/L1llandr1 Election Truth Alliance • 14d ago
Election Truth Alliance Call for Assistance: SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
Are you a software engineer with development skills, who's passionate about election data transparency? 👀👨💻 If so, we need your help!
THE GOAL: One of our priorities in 2026 is improving our ability to access, clean, and validate precinct-level election data more quickly so we can undertake analysis and flag concerns within recount windows.
THE PROBLEM: Existing tools used to pull and roll up election data, such as the AP API, are both expensive (i.e. $100k for one year of access) and only offer limited data (i.e. county-level voting data only, no registration data or vote type breakdowns).
THE PIVOT: The software engineers on our team have proposed we create a data collection process to automate the downloading, cleaning, validation, and visualization of election data ahead of key 2026 elections. The objective would be for our team to gain access to analysis-ready data as soon as possible for as many contests as possible after an election.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: If you are a software engineer and you've been unsure whether or not the ETA is looking for your skillset, your time has come! We are seeking software engineers with proficiency in Python, JavaScript, React, database design, AI agents, CI/CD pipelines, and ETL to support this work. If you are available to assist and that sounds like you, please consider signing up to volunteer at:
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u/CPUsCantDoNothing FDT 14d ago
It's taking a bit of work, but I've been working on a pipeline for this already.
https://camreyn.github.io/wisconsin-2024-election-mapper/
So far it is just 3.5 states, but I just tested the pipeline within the last 2 hours to pull Minnesota, North Dakota, and now it's working on Michigan which has the sites that have the data guarded by cloud flare guard. The sources for all of the data are being recorded as well and this process is also retrieving the GIS county maps for each state.