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I would like to add a panel on the map that displays the details for a single county. The contents of the panel will change as users hover their mouse over the counties. It should work very much like the leaflet example for choropleth maps.

Work on this should be done on the feature/react-refactor branch

The current is layout for the application is okay right now, but there must be a better way to display the measure search. We will also eventually want to add a search bar and filter categories too.

I am at a complete lost for now, and would like to hear suggestions.

The biggest problem with the application is that we still have no way to see whether or not the measure passed or failed (quite the oversight on my part). I think the best way to do this is adding a panel on the map that will have the percentage and count "Yes" and the same for "No".

This should be done on the feature/react-refactor branch.

One very useful feature we could add to the application is the ability to search measures. Ideally, this search would allow user to narrow it down to just a single year, or all measures we have data for.

In order to fully accommodate this, we may need to rearrange the layout of the measure selector.

One way to increase the usability of this application is by categorizing all of the measures available to us. This will then allow us to build an interface where our users can first select a category that interest them and then browse all the measures with that category.

The tasks in this issue are twofold:

• Determine the categories
• Create a reproducible way to categorize the measures. Potentially using some fancy sentiment analysis in the measure text.

Ideally, the way to categorize these measures would entail manually creating a list of categories and then having some automated means to categorize the measures and build it as a sub command to our existing CLI program.

In order to host this application as cheaply as possible, we will need to remove the dependency we currently have on the Flask and PostgreSQL servers that returns GeoJSON data.

Instead of the server, I will build a command line script that will give us the ability to export these files easily.

Data for these years is missing. I would like to do the following:

• Find the data for the years. It's available here: http://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Pages/electionhistory.aspx
• Create CSVs for each ballot measure like they currently are here. We'll be adding three new folders (nov2002, nov2007, nov2014, nov2016)
• Load the data in to PosgreSQL and update the dump file.

It would be nice to create a script to parse the PDF data so we can reuse it for future elections if the data format remains the same.