Transparency

No source. No score.

A scorecard is only worth the receipts behind it. Here's exactly how we build ours — the standard we hold, and the public records every rating and roster is sourced from.

No source, no score

Every rating is drawn from a verifiable public record — a roll-call vote, an official filing, a government roster — before it publishes. If we can't cite it, we don't claim it.

“Not Yet Rated” is honest

When we've seated an official but haven't yet sourced a voting record to score them, we label them Not Yet Rated. We never invent a score to fill a gap.

Truth over team

We don't grade on a red or blue curve. The record speaks — names, votes, and offices, traceable to the source.

Zero cross-pollination

A state's data never bleeds into another. What you see for your state was sourced for your state — no borrowed rosters, no shared placeholders.

The source ledger

Every state below was sourced down to the grassroots — county boards, city councils, school boards. These are the government and public-record domains those rosters are drawn from. This list is generated live from the roster itself, so it grows as we source more of the map.

12

States sourced

603

Grassroots seats

72

Source domains

New York

164 grassroots seats

albanycountyny.gov albanyny.gov ballotpedia.org buffalony.gov cityofrochester.gov council.nyc.gov en.wikipedia.org erie.gov monroecounty.gov nyassembly.gov nysenate.gov senate.gov

Illinois

68 grassroots seats

ballotpedia.org chicago.councilmatic.org chicago.gov cookcountyil.gov en.wikipedia.org gov.illinois.gov senate.gov

Pennsylvania

50 grassroots seats

alleghenycounty.us ballotpedia.org en.wikipedia.org philasd.org phlcouncil.com pittsburghpa.gov

Texas

47 grassroots seats

austintexas.gov ballotpedia.org cjo.harriscountytx.gov en.wikipedia.org harriscountytx.gov hcp2.com houstonisd.org houstontx.gov pct3.com tea.texas.gov traviscountytx.gov

California

46 grassroots seats

boe.lausd.org clerk.lacity.gov en.wikipedia.org lacity.gov lacounty.gov oaklandca.gov sf.gov sfbos.org

Washington

41 grassroots seats

en.wikipedia.org kingcounty.gov piercecountywa.gov seattle.gov seattleschools.org tacoma.gov

Minnesota

37 grassroots seats

ballotpedia.org hennepincounty.gov mpschools.org ramseycounty.us spps.org stpaul.gov

Maine

35 grassroots seats

ballotpedia.org bangormaine.gov cumberlandcounty.org en.wikipedia.org house.gov legislature.maine.gov lewistonmaine.gov mainecounties.org portlandmaine.gov portlandschools.org senate.gov sunjournal.com

Oregon

32 grassroots seats

ballotpedia.org en.wikipedia.org multco.us portland.gov pps.net salkeiz.k12.or.us

Michigan

31 grassroots seats

ballotpedia.org detroitk12.org detroitmi.gov en.wikipedia.org waynecountymi.gov

Colorado

30 grassroots seats

ballotpedia.org bocc.elpasoco.com denvergov.org dpsk12.org elpasoco.com jeffcopublicschools.org

Massachusetts

22 grassroots seats

boston.gov bostondsa.org bostonpublicschools.org cambridgema.gov en.wikipedia.org malegislature.gov senate.gov

See the receipts for yourself.

Open any official's card — grassroots seats carry a one-click Source drawer with the citation behind that seat.

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