Michigan voter information search

README.md

Michigan voter information search

Installation

pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests

Usage

python voter-info.py <first_name> <last_name> <month_of_birth_int> <year_of_birth> <zip_code>

NOTE: month_of_birth_int is a number representing the month. For example, March is 3.

Example:

python voter-info.py William Bradley 3 1902 48207

{'Election date': '11/3/2020', 'Application received': '9/11/2020', 'Ballot sent': '9/19/2020', 'Ballot received': '10/2/2020'}

voter-info.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import sys

url = 'https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/SearchByName'
interesting = ['Election date', 'Application received', 'Ballot sent', 'Ballot received']

data = {
    'FirstName': sys.argv[1],
    'LastName': sys.argv[2],
    'NameBirthMonth': sys.argv[3],
    'NameBirthYear': sys.argv[4],
    'ZipCode': sys.argv[5],
}
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
r = requests.post(url, data=data)

html = r.text

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
info = soup.find(id='lblAbsenteeVoterInformation')

if info is not None:
    record = {}
    for i in info:
        if i.name == 'b' and i.contents[0] in interesting:
            record[i.contents[0]] = i.next_sibling.next_sibling

    print(record)