The Spiral algorithm used in New York’s voter rolls assigns County voter ID (CID) numbers to State Board of Elections ID (SBOEID) numbers. It does this using a deterministic and reversible method. This means that the Spiral is predictable (deterministic) and it is designed to retrieve data of interest (reversible).
After working out a number of methods t…
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