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SayonaraShitbird 100 points ago +101 / -1

Working with some other guys in that thread, I'm grabbing all of the dead people data from 1900 on and we wrote an API wrapper for Michigan's vote check. Tomorrow we'll be able to run through thousands of names programmatically. Fuck the dems.

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bear__aware 26 points ago +26 / -0

Should we be doing this for other states also?

Where are you getting the dead people data from though? That seems like it would not be public. Sure there are obituaries in local newspapers and so you could infer name and zip code maybe but not birth date, not to mention it would be super hard to systematically scrape this.

I could pretty easily take on at least some portion of this work for another state. I am on mobile at the moment, stuck waiting for an oil change but I will try to catch up on twatter soon.

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SayonaraShitbird 21 points ago +21 / -0

I'm starting here: https://sortedbybirthdate.com/small_pages/1903/19030101_1001.html

since it's all html with incrementing filenames I'm looping through and grabbing everything from 1900-1999.We've already got a parser for the data it's just taking a while to download it all.

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100percentdeplorable 7 points ago +7 / -0

Is that data different from the death data downloadable here? - http://ssdmf.info/download.html They seem to be run by the same people.

Also if you want to share the code for the API checker I can spin up a few VMs and try hitting the voter registration lookup for a few other states as well.