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Fight over Alameda County Voting Records PDF vs. JSON (mercurynews.com)
2 points by PopAlongKid 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"Most importantly to election integrity advocates, [Registrar of Voters] Dupuis said he will release the records in a JSON file, which is a text-based format used to easily analyze large data sets. A Secretary of State’s memo had previously directed the state’s registrars to only release the records in a file type [PDF] that would have made election audits difficult, if not impossible, according to election integrity advocates like Steve Hill, an author at the national nonprofit FairVote."




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