Election Data Quality

Project Description

CSE 416 course project. The goal of the project is to provide users with an easily understandable visual representation of different elections' voting data in a comprehensive and unified manner.

There is currently no mainstream reference in gathering and visualizing election data in the U.S. at the detailed level of a precinct/election ward. The hopeful goal of this project is to provide something that can be the start of exactly that.

Live site: https://ElectionDataQuality.com

Project Members

• David Lin @DavidLSC
• Ilan Kleiman @shortland
• Reed Gantz @reedm121
• Samuel Hoffmann @SamuelHHoffmann

Frontend

Developed in Javascript with React and Bootstrap.

react-mapbox-gl

Frontend Install/Build/Run/Deploy

After cloning the directory and entering the frontend directory, follow the below instructions.

Install Dependencies

$ yarn

Run Project

$ yarn start

Deploy Project to GitHub-Pages

$ yarn run deploy

Backend

Developed in Java with SpringBoot.

Backend Install/Build/Run/Deploy

After cloning the directory and entering the backend directory, follow the below instructions.

Note: this project uses gradle - not maven.

Building .jar executable

$ ./gradlew build

Deploying latest server-code to the server

$ ./gradlew deploy

More info on how the backend handles the deploy can be found in the branch: upgrader-servlet.

Executing .jar executable locally

$ java -jar build/libs/rest-service-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Database

MySQL Server.

Database Login

Web Interface: Login

Username: jerryman
Password: JerryManderingIsBad123!
IP Address: 45.55.121.121:3306

States

Sample State Data

• Wisconsin
• Utah
• New York

Data Sources

Misc

• National Park Data

Wisconsin

Geographic Data:

• Precinct Boundries (wards)

• Congressional Boundries

• Counties

Demographic Data:

• 2010 Census

Voter Data:

• 2016 Presidential

• 2016 Congressional

• 2018 Congressional

Other Data:

• State Parks

Utah

Geographic Data:

• Precinct Boundries

• Congressional Boundries

• Counties

Demographic Data

• 2010 Census

• 2010 Census

Voter Data

• 2016 Presidential

• 2016 Congressional

• 2018 Congressional

Other Data:

• State Parks

New York

Geographic Data:

• Precinct Boundries

• Congressional Boundries

• Counties

Demographic Data:

• 2010 Census

Voter Data:

• 2016 Presidential (in xls format) (only by county)

• 2016 Congressional (in xls format) (only by county)

• 2018 Congressional (in xls format) (only by county)

County FIPS Codes:

• County FIPS is a unique number that identifies each county in the whole country.

• Our precinct boundary data (from Harvard) shows each of the precincts with a County FIPS code concatenated with county-level-precinct # identifying the precinct (# starting from 1..n precincts in the whole state), so this code help in identifying what goes where.

• FIPS to County Code Chart

Must visit each individual NYS county's website to get the results of its precincts.