Results Data Spec Version 2

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

  Standard is limited to the USA at the state and county levels currently

• Stakeholder Participation No

  OpenElections is the sole authority of the standard's development. Publishers accept source code and official results contributions from volunteers from the public

• Consensus-Based Governance Yes

  The specification utilizes Google Groups to discuss the development of the specification. It also hosts an issue tracker on GitHub

• Extensions No

• Human Readable Yes

  Standard has field identifiers

• Machine Readable Yes

  Standard supports JSON and CSV formats. Specification's content is broken up into election data and election results

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

  OpenElections does not have the infrastructure or funding to handle real time data for election results

• Metadata Yes

  OpenElections is working on an Metadata API to compliment the specification.