Re: A database of electoral results?

jgitomer_at_erols.com says...

> The process may be complicated but the database should be fairly simple.
> After all the database does not do the processing -- it serves to hold the
> results of the processing. Using an RDBMS the database should be keyed on
> a table with each row describing one candidate, including actual and
> adjusted vote columns. Your application logic -- not the database -- will
> have to handle the definition of what is surplus and its transfer.

Indeed - thank you for your input, which is the area that I have been looking at - I currently have tables Election, Candidate, Constituency, Party and Count. I am also thinking about a Census table, so that one can relate census data to the electoral results.

It does appear that not much has been done on this in the way of work, so I may end up being a pioneer!

Anyway, it's nice to receive posts which start to address the issues, rather than diatribes accusing me of being a lazy Marxist - thank you.

Paul...  

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