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  "id": "2004-july-august-readmetxt",
  "slug": "2004-july-august-readmetxt",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-july-august-readmetxt.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 investigate election-related issues, including analysis of Florida's voter purge practices and local politicians' voting records.",
  "keywords": [
    "database",
    "elections",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Government & Politics",
    "Demographics & Census"
  ],
  "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": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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      "slug": "2004-september-october-purged-voter-problems",
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      "slug": "2005-january-february-politics-and-elections-an-evolving-story",
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      "slug": "2001-marchapril-tipsheets-for-local-elections",
      "score": 0.258
    },
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      "slug": "2001-marchapril-floridas-dead-heat",
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    }
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-july-august-readmetxt.html",
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