pac-hunter
us-senate
| pac-hunter | us-senate | |
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| 2 | 2 | |
| 12 | 47 | |
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| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Jupyter Notebook | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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pac-hunter
- pac-hunter: A US election finance utility to search donations from specific PACs to candidates of interest, using OpenFEC
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RAYPAC donations to 2020 election deniers and the open source project they inspired me to create
When researching donation history for RAYPAC, I discovered that the FEC maintains a pretty awesome API into nearly all aspects of federal election finance called OpenFEC. This gave me the idea to write a small utility wrapping this API to allow a user to quickly pull historical data of direct donations from a specific PAC to any number of candidates someone might be interested in. For my use case of election deniers, I used data maintained by [](fivethirtyeight.com) to search RAYPAC FEC reciepts with my tool and  in just a few lines of code.
us-senate
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[OC] 2020 Voters by Party compared with the Voters states' Representation in Senate, by Party
Current senate counts are from https://github.com/CivilServiceUSA/us-senate/blob/master/us-senate/data/us-senate.csv
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[OC] January 6th commission vote by represented US population
US Senator List (Convenient CSV file)
What are some alternatives?
openstates-scrapers - source for Open States scrapers
senate-stock-watcher-data - Data repository of JSON files that are filed by US Senators on efdsearch.senate.gov where they must report their stock trades. This is the same data as on senatestockwatcher.com
policyengine-us - The PolicyEngine US Python package contains a rules engine of the US tax-benefit system, and microdata generation for microsimulation analysis.
wetterdienst - Open weather data for humans.
zip-monster - The most reliable solution for working with US zip codes. Free replacement for paid APIs.
US_County_Level_Election_Results_08-20 - United States General Election Presidential Results by County from 2008 to 2016
Comparison-of-winners-of-elections-with-different-voting-methods - Compare the results of different voting methods