Candidates running across multiple elections might show the wrong data about odca-jekyll HOT 11 CLOSED

@sfdoran recommended we split the candidate data by election so essentially each a canidate running in multiple elections appears isolated from other elections. You would only see the candidates data for the current election for which you are looking at. You would not be able to see all the elections a candidate has run or is running in (although that would be a feature we could build in the future).

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@tdooner what is the state on the back end for this? The data generated for a candidate is for a single election, or is it for the candidate committee's entire lifetime? Is there a way to tell what election it was a part of (maybe ballot_id or office_election)?

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@adborden we could also list other committees controlled by the candidate - the committee names essentially tell you what other elections and offices they've run for since both are required in committee names. We could also provide all the previous names of the campaign committee being used in the election.

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@sfdoran is this information in the spreadsheet? I think trying to automate candidate name matching with the committee name might get messy.

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@adborden what if we add other candidate-controlled committees to the committee spreadsheet and then add columns to associate them with the candidate similar to the ballot measures? Then could you use that to list them at the bottom of the candidate's page as "Other committees controlled by this candidate"

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@adborden I can do that for Oakland. One question - how to handle candidates with more than two committees - should there be multiple columns? “com1”, “com2” etc.?

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Yeah, I like @mikeubell 's idea. The committee should appear on the committee sheet with an additional column like "candidate_controlled_id" that refers to the candidate's committee id.

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Okay I’ll try to drop those in tomorrow.

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This is fixed because we now scope candidates to a particular election and locality.

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