What is "VIP Test Election" ?

[Sridhar Kondoji]

I have provided 2 addresses falling in 2 states for this election Id and get responses for both?

What does this election name signify? Is this only for testing purposes?

Thanks

Sri

[Chetan Sabnis]

That's correct.  This election has only a limited number of states and the data is not production data.  It is our test election.  It is to be able to test before the production election ID (4100) becomes available for the midterms or when there are no upcoming elections supported in production after that.  

Unfortunately, in v2, if you do not specify an election ID, it will not return a result from the test election.  The good news here is that some data from the production election ID for the midterms will go live within 2 weeks time.

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[Sridhar Kondoji]

Hi Chetan,

I am somewhat confused here with respect to production and test election ID. Some of this is due to my lack of cull understanding of US elections. 

At any given time there may elections primary/general in several states and each of these will have a unique election ID. So my question is how test election ids will be there assuming there are 3 general elections scheduled in 3 different states?

Which elections non production data in reflected in test election id?

In V2, where we are only going to provide address, will we also receive test election data? If yes, won't that be a problem?

Thanks again for your wonderful support.

Thanks

Sri

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[Chetan Sabnis]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Sridhar Kondoji <skon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Chetan,

I am somewhat confused here with respect to production and test election ID. Some of this is due to my lack of cull understanding of US elections. 

At any given time there may elections primary/general in several states and each of these will have a unique election ID. So my question is how test election ids will be there assuming there are 3 general elections scheduled in 3 different states?

There is only a single test election ID, 2000.  We reserve the right to create others in the future, but normally we do not create other test elections.   Each primary will receive its own election id for production data.  The nationwide elections in the US (midterms and general) that happen every two years across the country receive a single election ID rather than 50+ separate ones.

 

Which elections non production data in reflected in test election id?

This varies.  It is a set of sample feed of data from a select few states for elections that happened in the past.  It shouldn't be used except for testing functionality.

 

In V2, where we are only going to provide address, will we also receive test election data? If yes, won't that be a problem?

We will not surface test election data when no election ID is supplied.  We will only surface test data if the test election ID (2000) is supplied.  Yes, it would be a problem if we did return test data in this scenario.  :)

 

Thanks again for your wonderful support.

Thanks

Sri

On Monday, September 22, 2014 2:25:19 PM UTC-4, Chetan wrote:

That's correct.  This election has only a limited number of states and the data is not production data.  It is our test election.  It is to be able to test before the production election ID (4100) becomes available for the midterms or when there are no upcoming elections supported in production after that.  

Unfortunately, in v2, if you do not specify an election ID, it will not return a result from the test election.  The good news here is that some data from the production election ID for the midterms will go live within 2 weeks time.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Sridhar Kondoji <skon...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have provided 2 addresses falling in 2 states for this election Id and get responses for both?

What does this election name signify? Is this only for testing purposes?

Thanks

Sri

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[Sridhar Kondoji]

Hi Chetan,

My questions related to test election id are answered. Thanks.

Is there a doc, where it is clearly mentioned when there will be a new election id and when there is only one common election id?

To summarize what you said below

The nationwide elections you just referred to below are held on first Tuesday of November? The production data that will be available in next 2 weeks is related to this nationwide election. correct?

Again for V2 voter info query with just address as input parameter, we would expect the http status code 200 without any data rather than 400 status code. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks

sri

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 1:18:20 PM UTC-4, Chetan wrote:

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Sridhar Kondoji <skon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Chetan,

I am somewhat confused here with respect to production and test election ID. Some of this is due to my lack of cull understanding of US elections. 

At any given time there may elections primary/general in several states and each of these will have a unique election ID. So my question is how test election ids will be there assuming there are 3 general elections scheduled in 3 different states?

There is only a single test election ID, 2000.  We reserve the right to create others in the future, but normally we do not create other test elections.   Each primary will receive its own election id for production data.  The nationwide elections in the US (midterms and general) that happen every two years across the country receive a single election ID rather than 50+ separate ones.

 

Which elections non production data in reflected in test election id?

This varies.  It is a set of sample feed of data from a select few states for elections that happened in the past.  It shouldn't be used except for testing functionality.

 

In V2, where we are only going to provide address, will we also receive test election data? If yes, won't that be a problem?

We will not surface test election data when no election ID is supplied.  We will only surface test data if the test election ID (2000) is supplied.  Yes, it would be a problem if we did return test data in this scenario.  :)

 

Thanks again for your wonderful support.

Thanks

Sri

On Monday, September 22, 2014 2:25:19 PM UTC-4, Chetan wrote:

That's correct.  This election has only a limited number of states and the data is not production data.  It is our test election.  It is to be able to test before the production election ID (4100) becomes available for the midterms or when there are no upcoming elections supported in production after that.  

Unfortunately, in v2, if you do not specify an election ID, it will not return a result from the test election.  The good news here is that some data from the production election ID for the midterms will go live within 2 weeks time.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Sridhar Kondoji <skon...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have provided 2 addresses falling in 2 states for this election Id and get responses for both?

What does this election name signify? Is this only for testing purposes?

Thanks

Sri

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[Chetan Sabnis]

Data will partially go in within the next 2 weeks.  More data will go live between now and the election.

Will discuss 400 on separate thread on the forum.

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