Aye/Yes Nay/No

[ElleNajt]

Depending on the bill, the senators who voted for it are sometimes given the key 'Yea' and other times 'Aye.' Similarly, 'Nay' and 'No' are both used to indicate the senators who voted against the bill.

It would be nice if this could be standardized, since I would have to put less exceptions in my code, and that would make it more readable. Alternatively, it takes only a few lines to go through the data and do this by hand; but the less data processing done on the users end the better. So, this is low priority but an easy and possibly helpful fix if you think it's appropriate.

(I assume that these don't have some subtle legal difference that would be lost if they were standardized?)

[JoshData]

There is a subtle legal difference, in so far as sometimes it's a yea/nay vote and sometimes it's an aye/no vote, but the difference has no practical meaning.

I would be fine with a normalization in the JSON output so long as the XML output is unchanged. See https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/blob/master/tasks/vote_info.py#L130 which performs normalization already in the XML output.