Voter Data: ak_respolis field descriptions

Submitted by patdunlavey on Thu, 03/02/2006 - 14:08. AdvoKit Users

Respolis Table from Advokit. This table stores “political address” information. Import.pl will create one respolis record per unique “political address”. Voters are linked to records in this table. Note that editing an existing respolis record changes respolis information for all voters who are linked to that record.
Field	Req'd Yes or No?	Size (in characters)	Explanation – what it is intended to be used for or very clear example of data that would go into the field	Default by Advokit? If empty, will import.pl automatically put a value in this field? If so what is it?
ward_number	no	20	If you have wards, use it. If not, ignore. If you have supervisorial district data put it here.
precinct_number	no	20	If you have precincts, parishes, etc. that are identified numerically, use this field.	Import.pl will create a single record for each precinct number or name
precinct_name	no	50	If you have precincts, parishes, etc. that are not identified numerically, use this field.	If you have precinct "portions" make sure names reflect them or the portions will be ignored during import, ie. Use "AG001_A" and "AG001_B" instead of just "AG001"
us_rep_district	no	20	US Congressional district
us_sen_district	no	20	Ignore (or use for your own purposes)
st_rep_district	no	20	State representative district
st_sen_district	no	20	State Senate district
census_tract	no	20	Geographic designation from the US Census
census_block	no	20	Geographic designation from the US Census

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