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That's what I did.

Skepticism is a necessary trait in this type of work, for sure. I will say that the performance has improved substantially in the past year, and there are still PDFs that require a…

Totally reasonable view, and one of our volunteers actually got the law in Kansas changed to mandate electronic publishing of statewide precinct results in a structured format! But…

Yes, thanks! Fixed.

In some cases that's true, but for many jurisdictions the results systems are third-party vendor platforms, too.

Many jurisdictions do risk-limiting audits using the original ballots, so futzing with the results wouldn't necessarily make that easier. Also, cast vote records are public in many…

Yeah, this is a very well-traveled road, but LLMs have made some big improvements. If you asked me (the guy who wrote the original piece linked above) what I'd use if accuracy alon…

For NYT story on name changes by women at marriage, we did an analysis of wedding announcements & released the results: https://github.com/TheUpshot/nyt_weddings .

As the author of the original piece, it's hard to disagree.

I've used Navicat Premium with Postgres and have had no issues. Pricey, but it works.