Externalidentifier

Definition

Used in request and response messages. BallotStyle, Election, Party and ReportingUnit optionally include this class for associating a jurisdiction’s codes, i.e., identifiers, with political parties or geopolitical units such as counties, towns, precincts, etc. Multiple occurrences of ExternalIdentifier can be used to associate multiple codes, e.g., if there is a desire to associate multiple codes with an object such as state-specific codes as well as OCD-IDs (Open Civic Data Identifiers). Attribute Multiplicity Type Attribute Description Type 1 IdentifierType An identifier type, e.g., FIPS. OtherType 0.1 String Used when Type value is other. Value 1 String The identifier used by the jurisdiction.