Elections Voter Precincts

Voting Information Project (VIP) Specification

by Pew Charitable Trusts, Google, US State Governments

Specification indicates voter precincts. The intent is for information disseminators to utilize the schema to provide all citizens with the information they need to cast a ballot

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Assessment

Open License Yes
Transferable to Other Jurisdictions Yes

Easy to adopt for state and local elections in the USA. Simple formats (CSV and XML) increase adoption across jurisdictions
Stakeholder Participation Yes

Government workers at the state level contribute to the publication of the VIP spec. The diversity of stakeholders encourages an inclusive open standard process
Consensus-Based Governance Yes

The project also has a mailing list for inquiries. Also can contribute to the VIP Community Google Group. Google forum is meant to 'foster a collaborative environment'. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vip-community
Extensions No

TrusttheVote Project is working on making the standard include contest and question data, location data, result for each location and contest combination, performance and participation data
Human Readable Yes

According to the standard's specification, the VIP feed should be named vipFeed-[FIPS code for state or county]-[election year]-[election month]-[election day].xml
Machine Readable Yes

XML and CSV format. Required top level tags include source object and election results object. These top level tags require an id attribute in order to uniquely identify them within the data file
Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

No indication of when standard should be updated following an election
Metadata No

Have metadata for political party. Otherwise not for metadata in standard's specification