Re: A database of electoral results?
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 20:54:06 -0000
Message-ID: <MPG.1a18b9cb811ac1e59897e5_at_news1.eircom.net>
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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