Election Results Reporting Common Data Format Specification

This release includes a BREAKING CHANGE:

• Updated the namespace of the XSD Schema to a valid uri.

Other changes

• Fix typos in specification document and XSD annotations

Election Results Reporting Common Data Format Specification

Non-functional changes, to specification document only.

Election Results Reporting Common Data Format Specification

The 2.0 version of the Election Results Reporting XML Schema includes the following important changes from the 1.0 XML Schema:

• Removed various 'collection' elements:
  • BallotSelection->VoteCountsCollection
  • Election->BallotStyleCollection
  • Election->CandidateCollection
  • Election->ContestCollection
  • ElectionReport->GpUnitCollection
  • ElectionReport->OfficeCollection
  • ElectionReport->PartyCollection
  • ElectionReport->PersonCollection
  • all occurrences of ExternalIdentifiers
• Removed BallotStyle->objectId attribute
• Removed ElectionReport->Signature element
• Removed SummaryCounts from GpUnit
• Removed OrderedContest from BallotStyle
• Capitalized all lower case attributes:
  • all label attributes are now Label
  • all objectId attributes are now ObjectId
  • AnnotatedString->annotation attribute is now Annotation
  • LanguageString->language attribute is now Language
• Changes to reporting of other counts besides vote counts:
  • Changed name of SummaryCounts to BallotCounts
  • Added Election->BallotCounts
  • Added Contest->OtherCounts for contest-related summary counts
    • Overvotes, Undervotes, WriteIns moved from BallotCounts
    • Changed Overvotes, Undervotes to be float types
  • Counts->Type attribute is now required (applies to SummaryCounts and VoteCounts types)
• Adjusted the multiplicity of various attributes and associations:
  • Adjusted multiplicity of ContactInformation->Directions from 0..* to 0..1.
  • All attributes whose Type is AnnotatedUri now have multiplicity of 0..*
• Added new types:
  • Added AnnotatedUri type
  • Added Header type
  • Added OrderedContent type
  • Added OrderedHeader type
  • Added DateTimeWithZone type to enforce timezone requirement
• Added various new associations and attributes:
  • Added BallotStyle->OrderedContest
  • Added CandidateContest->NumberRunoff
  • Added Counts->Round
  • Added Candidate->ContactInformation
  • Added Candidate->CampaignSlogan
  • Added ElectionReport->Header
  • Added Office->Description
  • Added Party->IsRecognizedParty
  • Added Party->ContactInformation
  • Added Party->LeaderPersonIds
  • Added Party->PartyScopeGpUnitIds
  • Added Party->Slogan
  • Added Person->ExternalIdentifier
• Modified enumeration literals:
  • Added recall enumeration literal to BallotMeasureType
  • Added defeated enumeration literal to CandidatePostElectionStatus
  • Removed write-in enumeration literal from CandidatePreElectionStatus
  • Added seats enumeration literal to CountItemType
  • Added bmd, dre enumeration literals to DeviceClass
  • Removed electronic, lever, mixed-systems, punch-card from DeviceClass
  • Added country enumeration literal to ReportingUnitType
  • Removed 1-of-m enumeration literal from VoteVariation
• Modified attribute types:
  • Changed ContactInformation->Uri to be of type AnnotatedUri
  • Changed GpUnit->Name to be of type InternationalizedText
  • Changed OtherCounts->overvotes, undervotes to float
  • Changed Party->Abbreviation to be of type InternationalizedText
  • Changed LatLng->Latitude and LatLng->Longitude to float
• Changed ElectionReport->GeneratedDate to be of type DateTimeWithZone
• maxLength of ShortString is now 32 (up from 16)
• Converted all usages of anyURI to AnnotatedUri
• Renamed the following:
  • Renamed BallotSelection to ContestSelection
  • Renamed Device to DeviceClass
  • Renamed ReportingDevice->Device to DeviceClass
  • Removed pluralization of ExternalIdentifier

Election Results Reporting

Election Results Reporting Version 1.0-50, dated January 11, 2016