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#1 Voter Search by Party

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2007-08-14
2007-08-14
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Since the necessary information is in the database already, it'd be nice to include "Political Party" as a search criterion.

The difficulty here (indeed, the reason it wasn't implemented with Who Voted's initial release) is that Party is stored in the DB as a string for each Voter. There is no standard set of parties to choose from in, say, a drop-down menu. Further, if a party was represented in the original flat file as a code, and that code wasn't present in the DB's FieldCodes table, then the code remains stored in the Voters table.

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