Using Voterinfoquery

[KYP, LLC]

Hi I am testing the voterinfoquery and when I test addresses I get blank results in the google civic api screen:

{
  "normalizedInput": {
    "line1": "40 East 55th Street",
    "city": "Brooklyn",
    "state": "NY",
    "zip": "11203"
  },
  "kind": "civicinfo#voterInfoResponse"
}

How do we get the results for that address to appear?

[Sudipta Chatterjee]

Hi - I tried that same address in a freeform string and I'm able to get the desired result (for the test election ID 2000):

curl "https://www.googleapis.com/civicinfo/v2/voterinfo?key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&address=40%20E%2055th%20St%20Brooklyn%20NY%&electionId=2000"

Maybe you're framing the address incorrectly?

- Sudipta

                                                                                                  

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[KYP, LLC]

Two Questions: 

• How are you pulling the election IDs? I try to go the website provided and I keep getting a 404 error. 
• Since that was a test election ID, what is a election ID that is in production I can use to test if the address returns

[Mekesia Brown]

Like Sudipta, I also got results using the electionID. Even with just the state (using a PHP curl request):

          $test = "https://www.googleapis.com/civicinfo/v2/voterinfo?address=NY&electionId=2000&key=" . $api_key 

Similar to the GGroup post here, on voterInfoQuery. Not liking the fact that things work with a test id but... Guess that's better than nothing?! :/

Mekesia

[Robert Guttersohn]

The New York State election ballot info is not ready for the midterm election. You have to use VIP test election id of 2000 to essentially setup a prototype. When the ballot info is added (I think October 25th is when they VIP is aiming to have NY State info up), you can just swap out the election ID.