The files for the 2003 California Recall are now available. You may access them through the link below the “Special Features” heading on the home page. I plan to have the preliminary unofficial results posted early Wednesday morning. I won’t be a “real-time” source of data… but will have nice graphs and maps. Please feel free to comment on the implementation… I still have a little time to make modifications.
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Cool, but I don’t think McClintock will win Alemeda county.
Dave,
I’m curious as to whether the data currently on the three pages you have on the recall just a sample of how the pages will look or if those are actually absentee ballots counted from somewhere. Alemeda County is the first county in Calfornia in alphabetical order, so that may be why you mentioned that county first. If you can tell us the scoop on that data I would appreciate it.
About the implementation, I noticed that for the replacement electoin you are currently grouping some candidates as others not only on the map page (or not even on the map page right now, but on the data page as well. It would be nice if your data page had column for votes (not percentage of the vote) for all candidates who are listed on the ballot, with a separate column for write-ins if they are easily attainable (Maine’s web pages for recent election results don’t contain a column for write-in candidates except for individuals receiving a certain percentage of the vote). I realize, however, that with so many candidates that would be very difficult to do, and you might not have enough room for that big a page (I’m not sure as to the limits in size for a web page, although I know it goes well beyond the screen limits). I can understand why you would group many candidates together, but I thought I’d express my opinion. You could divide the candidates you don’t give a separate column to into “Other Democrats”, “Other Republicans”, “Other Independents”, etc. Whatever you do, thank you for making these pages. They will be a lot of fun to check out when they are completed.
One more thing: I noticed on the map page that for the up/down question the “Yes” vote had a red box next to it while the “No” vote had a green one. I had thought it was going to be the other way around, and I think that would be better than the way it appears on the map now. As for candidate colors, I like Bustamante being in red and originally wanted McClintock to be in blue after Simon dropped out, but I’m now thinking that if Arnold is the top-polling GOP candidate, which he almost certianly will be, that he should be in blue since he has been endorsed by many top Republicans, including the state party and (I think) President Bush. You might think green would not be a good color for McClintock, but keep in mind that that is the color you gave to such conservatives as Thurmond, Wallace, and Smitz. If Camajo wins a county, I think he should have the green color. I still think either yellow should be the forth color on the map if one is needed, but whatever you do is fine. I hope this input helps. One advantage to having Arnold in green is that I think you will make that the color of the yes vote, and having Arnold’s color coinciding with the pro-recall color would go along with the conventional wisdom that it’s now a two-way race between the Terminator and Davis.
Sincerely,
Kevin Lamoreau
Sincerely,
Kevin Lamoreau
Thanks Kevin. I have corrected the Yes/No colors. Also added a link at the bottom of the data page that creates a table that includes results for all candidates that received votes.
The votes currently in the data table are not indicative of any counted returns, rather test data and has no bearing on anything.
I think Green is a good color for Schwarzenegger – same color as Jesse 🙂
Dave