The article emphasizes the discrepancy between the potential for accessible election data and its actual availability. The Downballot has highlighted the difficulties in obtaining district-level election results, noting that many states do not publish this information despite being able to do so easily. Instead, they require extensive efforts to manually collect and clean precinct-level data from various counties, many of which lack online postings. This inefficiency hinders transparency and accessibility for voters and researchers alike.
Election data should be widely accessible and at a detailed level. The Downballot has compiled district-level data for five presidential elections, revealing that very few states publish results at this granularity, even when capable of doing so easily.
The challenge lies in manually gathering precinct-level results from numerous counties, many of which do not even provide this information online, making the process labor-intensive and inefficient.
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