posted ago by CrackerJack2
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... "candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-11-p", ...
... "candidate_id":"biden-1036", ...
... "candidate_id":"trump-8639", ...
(from NYTimes election reporting results)
'jorgensen-20062680-11-p'
looks like a numerical operation is being performed here.
To me it stinks of left over programming Code.
Any thoughts?
What is this exactly doing?
Exactly what language is this?
Is this JavaScript?
Can it be a specialized Variant of a language?
... "candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-11-p", ...
... "candidate_id":"biden-1036", ...
... "candidate_id":"trump-8639", ...
(from NYTimes election reporting results)
'jorgensen-20062680-11-p'
looks like a numerical operation is being performed here.
To me it stinks of left over programming Code.
Any thoughts?
What is this exactly doing?
Exactly what language is this?
Is this JavaScript?
Can it be a specialized Variant of a language?
as per https://www.politico.com/2020-election/data/presidential-delegates/colorado/delegate_allocations.csv:
state_abbr,election_date,party,name,ap_id,delegates
seems to indicate the numeric value is just an ID # associated with the candidate (ap_id).
Without seeing more of the code, it simply looks like key value pairs in a storage object, no operations are being performed there.
If you take a look at the following http://greatamericanrebirth.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/georgia-president.json_.txt - you can see that it is a "master key" ID (for the lack of a better term), it links the candidate_id and the candidate_key, which is then used for storing actual vote_share values.
{"candidate_id":"trump-8639","candidate_key":"trumpd","first_name":"Donald J.","last_name":"Trump","order":3,"name_display":"Donald J. Trump"......
TLDR: it's just an object that is used to store data, no operations are performed in that "code snippet". The language is almost certainly JSON.
Thanks!
Will study.
These are just identifiers if there was more (like something else plus this identifier) we gotta issue.
Just noticed another thing. When I checked in the NYT data file for different states, the IDs for Joe and Trump are the same, but for Jo the middle number (11) is different for each state:
Wisconsin: "jorgensen-20062680-50-p"
Pennsylvania: "jorgensen-20062680-39-p"
etc.
This is pretty wierd. Almost like they are encoding some other info into the candidate field thats different in each state.
Real good find!
för Delaware: {"candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-8-p"
for Alabama "candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-1-p",
for Alaska. "candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-2-p"
for Delaware: {"candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-8-p"
for Florida "candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-10-p"
for Wyoming "candidate_id":"jorgensen-20062680-51-p"
50th state alphabetically, D.C. (District of Columbus) included and pushes every state down one after it.
Why would one have Jorgensen keyed differently to each and every State?
And why such a loooooong number for her? A National candidate!
So there are other 3rd party candidates, and those are encoded the same way as well.
What does this do?
"leader_margin_display":"D+0.25"
formatting OR arithmatic ?
Actually there are a few related fields, looks like:
"leader_margin_value":0.67236,"leader_margin_votes":45616,"leader_margin_display":"D+0.67","leader_margin_name_display":"Biden +0.67"
Triggers my spidey senses, I will dig a bit more tomorrow.
Update in NYTimes Data Base, JSON software Storage management scheme: . Letters in associated "candidate_id" field: . h is for House Race s is for Senate Race g is for governor p is for Presidential Race, however, ..... p is used only for 3rd Party candidates
. Numbers 1-51 are associated with 50 States in alphabetical order, with D.C. included in this list. . . Jo Jorgensen is a Presidential candidate who was on the ballot in all 50 States, plus D.C., had a 'p' associated with her candidate_id field, in addition to '20062680'. Ex. "jorgensen-20062680-11-p" where 11 is the state of Georgia.
Biden and President Trump results, however, do not conform to this Data Base Form, and are instead tabulated somewhere else and Show up as simply "biden-1036" and "trump-8639". . Why Not? There's a slight possibly that some cheating Software, derived by someone, can't handle more than 2 Presidential candidates. They may have used a some kind of Ratio Game, to keep Biden close and in the 'Game' all election night. But this Software can't work OR wasn't designed to handle MORE than two candidates, so they put all the other 3rd Party candidates in with the separate individual states Data cells. . Any constructive criticism is welcome.
I agree with most of it.
It is JSON.
The candidate IDs seem to be some kind of computer generated ID for each candidate, but the format, especially for jorgensen is weird. But by itself does not show anything nefarious.
json data perhaps. Key/value pairs.
Update in NYTimes Data Base, JSON software Storage management scheme:
.
Letters in associated "candidate_id" field: .
h is for House Race
s is for Senate Race g is for governor
p is for Presidential Race, however,
..... p is used only for 3rd Party candidates
.
Numbers 1-51 are associated with 50 States in alphabetical order, with D.C. included in this list. .
.
Jo Jorgensen is a Presidential candidate who was on the ballot in all 50 States, plus D.C., had a 'p' associated with her candidate_id field, in addition to '20062680'. Ex. "jorgensen-20062680-11-p" where 11 is the state of Georgia.
Biden and President Trump results, however, do not conform to this Data Base Form, and are instead tabulated somewhere else and Show up as simply "biden-1036" and "trump-8639". .
Why Not?
There's a slight possibly that some cheating Software, derived by someone, can't handle more than 2 Presidential candidates.
They may have used a some kind of Ratio Game, to keep Biden close and in the 'Game' all election night.
But this Software can't work OR wasn't designed to handle MORE than two candidates, so they put all the other 3rd Party candidates in with the separate individual states Data cells. . Any constructive criticism is welcome.
Georgia results: https://archive.is/n1UhH
(archived by you guys. )
That’s JSON which is a way of storing data. It isn’t code. “candidate_id” is text that labels a value. It could have any meaning. The value is text.
My best guess is that “candidate_id” having the suffix of “_id” means that part of the data is just an unique identifier. The extra numbers and characters after the last name aren’t consequential.
That snippet above looks like json. Its basically a data format that is consumable by most modern languages.
It doesn't do anything!
Code is data, sure. But, this is data. Any modern language can consume this data.
It could be a tally, wherein biden got 1036 ballots. Perhaps jorgannsen got 11 provisional votes, and the office code is prefixed?
To my eyes, there is nothing to suggest a numerical operation takes place here.