I imagine there would be other systems (state-owned and private) that use the FTP server, and maybe in a way that changing protocols is inexplicably full of fri

I imagine there would be other systems (state-owned and private) that use the FTP server, and maybe in a way that changing protocols is inexplicably full of friction. I wonder why the elections server, assuming it only contains records legal to distribute to the public, is even password protected. Maybe it was a policy when govt bandwidth was scarce. California, for example, has campaign finance data on a public webserver: https://www.californiacivicdata.org/ https://www.californiacivicdata.org/ And the FEC has an API, but has long had the data hosted on public FTP: https://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftp_download.shtml https://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftp_download.shtm...