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Show HN: How Many People Have Voted?

23 points by iisbum 6y ago

iisbum 6y ago
Like many of you, the Election on Tuesday is front of mind, and will be for a few days after :-/ I was thinking about the number of people that actually vote, and with more states allowing early voting, I wondered how it would affect participation in the election (given the current pandemic). I was able to find the raw data on http://www.electproject.org/ http://www.electproject.org/ but wasn't happy with how it was being displayed, so I created my own visualization.
- _jahh 6y ago
  very cool! this i imagine would be reasonably difficult but it would be interesting to see what the delta of registered voters or population. If a state has grown by 200000 hitting their 2016 number maybe is less significant.
  - iisbum 6y ago
    Was talking with a friend about this earlier today. We figured we could access census data for the states/counties and see how the population has shifted, between elections. Definitely doable, would just need some time to collect the data.
- scastillo 6y ago
  electproject migrated to github and I find more useful their infographics tho: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
senkora 6y ago
This looks really cool! Some feedback: I don’t understand exactly what the colors are. Is it 2016 results, with darker shades being more extreme? Is it 2020 polls? Something else? I would like an option to sort alphabetically so that I can quickly find particular states. For example, it was hard for me to find PA which is very important this election, because I overestimated its turnout and had to scan through most of the list (also, yikes!).
- iisbum 6y ago
  Thanks for the feedback, will add a FAQ or something to explain, but posting here too: Red/Blue is an indication who won that state in 2016. The shading (light -> dark) was mean't be an indicator of how much participation in the current election. The lighter the color, the closer to 100% of the 2016 voting numbers has already been achieved. Will add some sorting options!
  - webmaven 6y ago
    > The lighter the color, the closer to 100% of the 2016 voting numbers has already been achieved. That doesn't seem quite right. But in any case, how are numbers represented that already exceed 2016's?
theXspidy 6y ago
I also made voting platform today gumhunt.com

23 points by iisbum 6y ago

Like many of you, the Election on Tuesday is front of mind, and will be for a few days after :-/ I was thinking about the number of people that actually vote, and with more states allowing early voting, I wondered how it would affect participation in the election (given the current pandemic). I was able to find the raw data on http://www.electproject.org/ http://www.electproject.org/ but wasn't happy with how it was being displayed, so I created my own visualization.

_jahh 6y ago
very cool! this i imagine would be reasonably difficult but it would be interesting to see what the delta of registered voters or population. If a state has grown by 200000 hitting their 2016 number maybe is less significant.
- iisbum 6y ago
  Was talking with a friend about this earlier today. We figured we could access census data for the states/counties and see how the population has shifted, between elections. Definitely doable, would just need some time to collect the data.
scastillo 6y ago
electproject migrated to github and I find more useful their infographics tho: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

senkora 6y ago

This looks really cool! Some feedback: I don’t understand exactly what the colors are. Is it 2016 results, with darker shades being more extreme? Is it 2020 polls? Something else? I would like an option to sort alphabetically so that I can quickly find particular states. For example, it was hard for me to find PA which is very important this election, because I overestimated its turnout and had to scan through most of the list (also, yikes!).

iisbum 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback, will add a FAQ or something to explain, but posting here too: Red/Blue is an indication who won that state in 2016. The shading (light -> dark) was mean't be an indicator of how much participation in the current election. The lighter the color, the closer to 100% of the 2016 voting numbers has already been achieved. Will add some sorting options!
- webmaven 6y ago
  > The lighter the color, the closer to 100% of the 2016 voting numbers has already been achieved. That doesn't seem quite right. But in any case, how are numbers represented that already exceed 2016's?

theXspidy 6y ago

I also made voting platform today gumhunt.com