Montana email regex issue, possible patch

[Chris Zubak-Skees]

The Montana scraper runs emails through a regular expression that strips out the first part of many legislator email addresses. The regex truncates emails like Sen.Bradl...@mt.gov to Ham...@mt.gov and emails like james.a...@gmail.com to per...@gmail.com. As a result, several Montana emails were incorrect.

I've submitted a patch with a slightly more permissive regex: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/openstates/pull/865

This new regex is not perfect either, but based on my tests it matches every Montana legislator email address while filtering out the surrounding HTML.

Chris Zubak-Skees

News Developer

Center for Public Integrity

czuba...@publicintegrity.org

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