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This election will not be like any we’ve seen before. With unprecedented mail-in voting, the tools we’ve used may not even work this time around. But I’m going to leave the Tracker and the Needle both running, with huge caveats that (a) they only handle live, in person voting, and (b) we have no idea how in-person and mail-in will correlate, especially in different neighborhoods across the city.

Want to follow in real time?

The Turnout Tracker

The Turnout Tracker is back for a *fifth* election. Here’s how you can help with citizen science!

1. Vote. (And when you do, get your Voter Number.)

2. Share your Voter Number to
bit.ly/sixtysixturnout

> Vote by mail? You can let me know in the form!

3. Follow along live at
sixtysixwards.com/turnout-tracker

The estimate is better the more people participate. Tell your friends!

Sixty-Six Wards After Dark: The Election Needle

Once the polls close, I’ll be processing the live results and projecting the final outcomes at
sixtysixwards.com/election-night-needle

Note: Needle projections will only include live results, as the mail-in results will take some days to process. And we have no idea how they may deviate from live voting.

Follow along!

I’ve been a little lazy about pushing my resources online (and doing all the necessary best practices to make that work).

But since I publish code in my posts, it would be nice if I gave you the data to actually recreate it. I’m going to spend December cleaning up my files, and pushing as much as possible to github.

I’m not going to promise that everything will be organized enough to run out the box–I don’t think that’s worth anyone’s time–but I will try to make sure that my core datasets (“df_major”, “div_cats”, etc) are posted somewhere so you can download them.

Today, I’m doing the first batch of that. I’ve published my core, cleaned election files to the Sixty-Six Wards Data repository. There, you will find all of my *crosswalked* election results, meaning the historic results mapped to present-day boundaries. (See my post about how I do that.)

In the upcoming weeks, I’ll work on publishing the Ward Portal, the Needle, and updating the Turnout Tracker repo. Stay tuned!