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I don't think you're allowed to vote for those outside your district/state.

tieTYT 13y ago
I know. If you go to the link, the first thing it asks is for your zip code to give you a list of your representatives. The reminder would contain that list.
- cinquemb 13y ago
  That is where I was thinking of putting the link to download the dynamically generated .ICS file, but I'm stuck on where to get the data for their reelection dates :S (Sunglight labs supposedly has "term_start"and "term_end" fields, but a test call to their api shows nothing and even if those returned, I don't know how well that correlates to when the election is).
  - tieTYT 13y ago
    I hope I'm not embarrassing myself here, but, does this help? https://www.usvotefoundation.org/state-elections/state-election-dates-deadlines https://www.usvotefoundation.org/state-elections/state-elect...
    - cinquemb 13y ago
      That could help. But right now i found out that elections are held in the first week of November for house of representatives every two years, and any elections outside of that are due to edge cases like resignation or death. It could be done for 2014 though. Would that be valuable?
      - tieTYT 13y ago
        Yes. Why are you thinking it might not be valuable?
        cinquemb 13y ago
        I guess I meant valuable enough for me to work on it right now :P But I am so I guess that is moot. Thanks for this idea, it is really awesome, and I hope I can get something up functioning soon. Edit: Ok, it seems like we cannot create .ics file to download. We're using github pages so we're limited to front end things. But I'm looking to see if there are any work arounds.
        tieTYT 13y ago
        I'm pretty ignorant here. These only differ per state right? I mean a brute force solution would be to generate 50 of them and then you're done, right? You could link to the appropriate one directly.
        cinquemb 13y ago
        Depends, do people want all the elected officials of that state where one might only be able to vote for 1 or 2 in their district, and all the other information that is being pulled from the api calls now? I think we're going to get to this at some point, but probably not today. I think with more time, we can get a dedicated server (which would make this task a lot easier), make a more robust tool to include more functionality than this hack, for any organizations that would like use a tool like this.
        tieTYT 13y ago
        Personally, if it tells me, "Don't vote for these 4 people" and I can only vote for 1-2 of them, I wouldn't mind. If it tells me, "Don't vote for these 15+ people", that's just noise and I wouldn't find it useful.

I know. If you go to the link, the first thing it asks is for your zip code to give you a list of your representatives. The reminder would contain that list.

cinquemb 13y ago
That is where I was thinking of putting the link to download the dynamically generated .ICS file, but I'm stuck on where to get the data for their reelection dates :S (Sunglight labs supposedly has "term_start"and "term_end" fields, but a test call to their api shows nothing and even if those returned, I don't know how well that correlates to when the election is).
- tieTYT 13y ago
  I hope I'm not embarrassing myself here, but, does this help? https://www.usvotefoundation.org/state-elections/state-election-dates-deadlines https://www.usvotefoundation.org/state-elections/state-elect...
  - cinquemb 13y ago
    That could help. But right now i found out that elections are held in the first week of November for house of representatives every two years, and any elections outside of that are due to edge cases like resignation or death. It could be done for 2014 though. Would that be valuable?
    - tieTYT 13y ago
      Yes. Why are you thinking it might not be valuable?
      - cinquemb 13y ago
        I guess I meant valuable enough for me to work on it right now :P But I am so I guess that is moot. Thanks for this idea, it is really awesome, and I hope I can get something up functioning soon. Edit: Ok, it seems like we cannot create .ics file to download. We're using github pages so we're limited to front end things. But I'm looking to see if there are any work arounds.
        tieTYT 13y ago
        I'm pretty ignorant here. These only differ per state right? I mean a brute force solution would be to generate 50 of them and then you're done, right? You could link to the appropriate one directly.
        cinquemb 13y ago
        Depends, do people want all the elected officials of that state where one might only be able to vote for 1 or 2 in their district, and all the other information that is being pulled from the api calls now? I think we're going to get to this at some point, but probably not today. I think with more time, we can get a dedicated server (which would make this task a lot easier), make a more robust tool to include more functionality than this hack, for any organizations that would like use a tool like this.
        tieTYT 13y ago
        Personally, if it tells me, "Don't vote for these 4 people" and I can only vote for 1-2 of them, I wouldn't mind. If it tells me, "Don't vote for these 15+ people", that's just noise and I wouldn't find it useful.