Exactly - what this scraper does is pull down the plain text results (for example http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dbcs/elections/2011-05/results.shtml), do some simple text processing to pull out the different fields, and then put that into a database. That way you can get the data in a format like JSON, which an app could use to summary results (or watch a specific race and alert you if anything changes).