That could help. But right now i found out that elections are held in the first week of November for house of representatives every two years, and any elections outside of that are due to edge cases like resignation or death. It could be done for 2014 though. Would that be valuable?
I guess I meant valuable enough for me to work on it right now :P But I am so I guess that is moot.
Thanks for this idea, it is really awesome, and I hope I can get something up functioning soon.
Edit: Ok, it seems like we cannot create .ics file to download. We're using github pages so we're limited to front end things. But I'm looking to see if there are any work arounds.
I'm pretty ignorant here. These only differ per state right? I mean a brute force solution would be to generate 50 of them and then you're done, right? You could link to the appropriate one directly.
Depends, do people want all the elected officials of that state where one might only be able to vote for 1 or 2 in their district, and all the other information that is being pulled from the api calls now?
I think we're going to get to this at some point, but probably not today. I think with more time, we can get a dedicated server (which would make this task a lot easier), make a more robust tool to include more functionality than this hack, for any organizations that would like use a tool like this.
Personally, if it tells me, "Don't vote for these 4 people" and I can only vote for 1-2 of them, I wouldn't mind. If it tells me, "Don't vote for these 15+ people", that's just noise and I wouldn't find it useful.
