To assist the Columbia Missourian‘s website staff in publishing election results quickly, Delta Systems wrote an Excel spreadsheet converter that will take an XLS file from the county clerk and convert it to Flash-friendly XML for their online election maps. Some additional ActionScript was also written to help meld it all together well.
Since results aren’t expected until 2am, and we want to get some sleep, the converter is conveniently located on a webpage they can access at any time.