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Election Results Reporting Subgroup

READ-ONLY SITE MATERIALS: Historical voting TWiki site (2015-2020) ARCHIVED from https://collaborate.nist.gov/voting/bin/view/Voting

This subgroup is creating a common data format for election results reporting.

There are two phases to this effort:

  • Phase 1 - create initial version 1.0 specification and use as possible in 2015-2016 elections
  • Phase 2 - based on feedback from Phase 1, create version 2.0 of specification

Phase 2 also involves creation of a repository of identifiers for geo-political geographies and for the most common types of contests.

Current Status

The Election Results Reporting Common Data Format Specification Version 2.0 has been published.

doi: 10.6028/NIST.SP.1500-100r2

Working Documents

All working documents are located on the Election Results Reporting GitHub repository:

usnistgov/ElectionResultsReporting

Documentation for the model/schema is located at:

https://pages.nist.gov/ElectionResultsReporting

Membership

The mailing list for this subgroup will be reformed; all email concerning the subgroup can be sent to the vvsg-interoperability [at] list.nist.gov (vvsg-interoperability[at]list[dot]nist[dot]gov) list.

To join the list or find more information about list policies and related procedures, please visit the VVSG Working Group Lists page.

 

Attachment

Date

Comment

AlbanyCounty_ESS-1027150624.xml

2015-11-03 - 16:26

Example file from NY Albany County election results

ElectionResultsReporting-v25.pdf

2016-02-02 - 19:43

 

ElectionResultsReporting.png

2015-11-04 - 12:45

Image of UML data model

NIST_V1.0-49_-_ElectionResultsReporting.mdzip

2015-11-04 - 12:46

UML data model in MagicDraw format

NIST_V1.0-50_-_ElectionResultsReporting.mdzip

2016-02-02 - 19:43

 

NIST_V1_election_results.png

2016-02-02 - 19:43

 

NIST_V1_election_resultsV50.xsd

2016-02-02 - 19:43

 

NIST_V1_election_results_reportingV49.xsd

2015-11-03 - 16:31

NIST CDF for Election Results Reporting XML Schema

V49_ieee_1622_2_110415.xml

2015-11-04 - 14:12

 

ieee_1622_2-V49-1104151353.zip

2015-11-04 - 19:08

 

test5-nist-6037-2014-11-04-1022151257.xml

2015-11-03 - 16:24

Example file from LA County 2012 election results

 


Voting TWiki Archive (2015-2020): read-only, archived wiki site, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)


ARCHIVE SITE DESCRIPTION AND DISCLAIMER

This page, and related pages, represent archived materials (pages, documents, links, and content) that were produced and/or provided by members of public working groups engaged in collaborative activities to support the development of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) 2.0. These TWiki activities began in 2015 and continued until early 2020. During that time period, this content was hosted on a Voting TWiki site. That TWiki site was decommissioned in 2020 due to technology migration needs. The TWiki activities that generated this content ceased to operate actively through the TWiki at the time the draft VVSG 2.0 was released, in February of 2020. The historical pages and documents produced there have been archived now in read-only, static form.

  • The archived materials of this TWiki (including pages, documents, links, content) are provided for historical purposes only.
  • They are not actively maintained.
  • They are provided "as is" as a public service.
  • They represent the "work in progress" efforts of a community of volunteer members of public working groups collaborating from late 2015 to February of 2020.
  • These archived materials do not necessarily represent official or peer-reviewed NIST documents nor do they necessarily represent official views or statements of NIST.
  • Unless otherwise stated these materials should be treated as historical, pre-decisional, artifacts of public working group activities only.
  • NIST MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND DATA ACCURACY.
  • NIST does not warrant or make any representations regarding the correctness, accuracy, reliability or usefulness of the archived materials.

ARCHIVED VOTING TWIKI SITE MATERIALS

This wiki was a collaborative website. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these archived TWiki materials. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned in these materials. Archived material on this TWiki site is made available to interested parties for informational and research purposes. Materials were contributed by Participants with the understanding that all contributed material would be publicly available.  Contributions were made by Participants with the understanding that that no copyright or patent right shall be deemed to have been waived by such contribution or disclosure. Any data or information provided is for illustrative purposes only, and does not imply a validation of results by NIST. By selecting external links, users of these materials will be leaving NIST webspace. Links to other websites were provided because they may have information that would be of interest to readers of this TWiki. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not referenced, from this page or these materials. There may be other websites or references that are more appropriate for a particular reader's purpose.

 

Created August 28, 2020, Updated February 5, 2021