pull current election results

results.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'nokogiri'
require 'csv'
require 'open-uri'
require 'pp'

BASE_URL = "http://vote.wa.gov/results/current/"
SHIT_I_CARE_ABOUT = /74|502|1185|Governor|Attorney General|Congressional District 1/

Nokogiri::HTML(open BASE_URL + "Export.html").css("a").each do |a|
  if a['href'] =~ /AllState.*csv$/
    @results_url = BASE_URL + a['href']
  end
end

csv = open(@results_url).read.gsub(/"/, '')
results = CSV.parse(csv, :headers => true)

cleaned = {}

results.each do |res|
  next unless res['Race'] =~ SHIT_I_CARE_ABOUT

  race = res['Race']
  candidate = res['Candidate']
  percentage = res['PercentageOfTotalVotes']

  cleaned[race] ||= {}
  cleaned[race][candidate] = percentage
end

cleaned.each do |race, results|
  puts race
  puts "-" * 80
  results.each do |name, percent|
    puts "#{name}: #{percent}%"
  end

  puts # blank line
end