Georgia - November 3, 2020 General Election
Ballots Cast Comparison Tool
This repo contains a Python script to download and compare certain vote totals reported before and after Georgia's risk-limiting audit (RLA) of the Presidential contest.
The totals reported before the RLA are taken from the "Official" totals
reported on Georgia's state election results
page. The RLA totals are taken from the CSV RLA report, which is available
at the above link. The CSV is also included in the
input-data directory of this repo.
The output of the script can be seen in the output.csv file
included in this repo.
The reason this script is needed is that Georgia's election results page doesn't seem to include "ballots cast" in the downloadable CSV files, etc. It only includes the candidate totals. The ballots cast total is, however, available in Scytl's XML downloads. You can also see the ballots cast numbers in the user interface of the website. For example, for Appling County, you can see it here (look at "Ballots Cast" in the "VOTER TURNOUT" box on the right): https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/Appling/105371/web.264614/#/summary?v=271560%2F
(Note that categories corresponding to certain other columns in the RLA report, like Invalid Write-In and Valid Write-in, don't seem to be available anywhere in the official totals, even in the XML downloads.)
Read the comments in the code for more details, explanation, and some disclaimers!
To Run
Use Python 3.6+. Then:
$ pip install requests
$ python process.py
The above writes the file output.csv to the repo root. For convenience,
we have also stored this file in the repo for you, as well as some
intermediate results files in the cache directory.