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  "id": "2004-july-august-readmetxt-2",
  "slug": "2004-july-august-readmetxt-2",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-july-august-readmetxt-2.html",
  "year": 2004,
  "month": "July-August",
  "monthNum": 7,
  "headline": "readme.txt",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "Computer-assisted reporting is being used by journalists to uncover electoral irregularities, including analysis of Florida's voter roll purging that disproportionately affects certain racial groups and investigation into local politicians' poor voting attendance records.",
  "keywords": [
    "elections",
    "data",
    "voting"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Government & Politics",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "Interested in seeing how others are using computer-assisted reporting to cover news about the elections? Check out these recent stories that appeared on IRE's Extra! Extra! (www.ire.org/extraextra).\n\nChris Davis and Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald Tribune examined Florida voter data and found that a quirk in the state's drive to clear convicted felons from the voter rolls would spare Hispanics, who tend to support Republicans, in greater numbers than other races.\n\nMark Greenblatt of WBBH-Fort Myers, Fla., built and analyzed a database of the voting records of 34 local politicians and found that a handful voted less than half the time since 1990.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-july-august-readmetxt-2.html",
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