Centralize Voting Results of the German Bundesrat

[jfilter]

The Bundesrat publishes its voting results on 16 different websites. Let's centralize them!

https://www.bundesrat.de/DE/plenum/abstimmung/abstimmung-node.html

So first, you have to extract the text from the text-based PDFs. Tools such as https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six could help. In the next step, you have to aggregate the results for each "Drucksache". Not sure how accurately the extracted will be. Maybe some manual data cleaning is necessary. To automacally scrape the results, you could put the scrapers on https://morph.io/.

Context: https://fragdenstaat.de/blog/2018/bundesrat-transparenz-klage/

Contact person: @jfilter

[stefanw]

Also important: finding out how the voting works in detail: is there always a Drucksache (hint: no), which process and what part actually appears on the websites, is it the same for all states? But yes, this is a great project! Voting in Bundesrat has been a sort-of secret, you could be the first to find out patterns!

[stefanw]

I created a separate repo for scraping this:

https://github.com/okfde/bundesrat-scraper