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I'm in my second week @politicsANU. It's great and the people are really friendly, but what I'm most excited is the high quality of Australian electoral data. Let me count the ways (1/5)
.@AusElectoralCom doesn't just give you results for each district, you get results for *each polling place* (groups of around 1500 voters) tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDownloads… (2/n)
What if you don't know where those polling places are in relation to a district? How about a flat CSV file with lat/long coordinates! tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDownloads… (3/n)
You need to map those? Sure: here are some shapefiles! aec.gov.au/electorates/gi… (4/n)
.@ElectoralCommUK doesn't do a fraction of this. The report of election results in the UK is a joke. The govt should call off those voter ID pilots and put the money into making sure results are published at a granular level (5/5)
