State-by-State Data Availability & Timeline

[Benjamin Stein]

Hi everyone,

At Mobile Commons we are working to expose all the polling location
information via text message. We've been hearing a great response
from nonprofit organizations who are excited to use this data.

I have a question about the timeline of state-by-state data
availability. Generally speaking, is there a good way to find out the
status of coverage and to find out as more and more states are added?

And specifically, we have an immediate question about New York state &
New York city data and whether it will be available for the primaries
or not. We have some organizations who will want to use it very soon,
if it's available!

Thanks,
Ben

[Daniel Berlin]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Benjamin Stein <b...@mcommons.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> At Mobile Commons we are working to expose all the polling location
> information via text message.  We've been hearing a great response
> from nonprofit organizations who are excited to use this data.
>
> I have a question about the timeline of state-by-state data
> availability.  Generally speaking, is there a good way to find out the
> status of coverage and to find out as more and more states are added?

Not quite yet, but we are looking into some solutions here.

>
> And specifically, we have an immediate question about New York state &
> New York city data and whether it will be available for the primaries
> or not.  We have some organizations who will want to use it very soon,
> if it's available!

Ginny, who is on vacation this week, would know a better answer to
this than I would.