BallotMeasureScope

Note: This entity is only used in metadata feeds. It isn't used with pre-election, election, or officeholder feeds.

BallotMeasureScope entities are used to describe a ballot measure that's being voted upon in an ElectionEvent.

Name	Tag	Type	Notes	Multiplicity
Debug name	DebugName	String	Descriptive name used for the ballot measure.	0 or 1
Location level	Location Level	OfficeLevel	The location level of the ballot measure: Country for national, Administrative Area 1 for a state or province, etc.	1
Location OCD ID	LocationOcdId	Ocd Id	Optional if LocationLevel is Country, otherwise required. The OCD IDs of the location of the ballot measure.	0 or 1
Title or topic	TitleOrTopic	String	Title of the ballot measure, if known. Otherwise, a short description of the topic.	1

Examples

The following example is a Feed that contains an ElectionEvent with BallotMeasureScope. It indicates that the Feed contains data about a ballot measure that will be held in California:

XML

<BallotMeasureScope>
  <DebugName>California state Ballot measures</DebugName>
  <LocationLevel>Administrative Area 1</LocationLevel>
  <LocationOcdId>ocd-division/country:us/state:ca</LocationOcdId>
  <TitleOrTopic>Remove Voter Approval Requirement for Public Low-Rent Housing Projects Amendment</TitleOrTopic>
</BallotMeasureScope>

JSON

{
  "BallotMeasureScope": {
      "DebugName": "California state Ballot measures",
      "LocationLevel": "Administrative Area 1",
      "LocationOcdId": "ocd-division/country:us/state:ca",
      "TitleOrTopic": "Remove Voter Approval Requirement for Public Low-Rent Housing Projects Amendment"
  }
}