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		neves on March 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Sp... Is it true that USA does not have a open data law to make everybody publish in CSV?

JumpCrisscross on March 23, 2023 [–]

> Is it true that USA does not have an open data law to make everybody publish in CSV?

American elections are de-centralised. Each state comes up with its methods. In some, each county. (I'm not sure how publishing a CSV of vote totals would help.)

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