A useful public record has an identity, a scope and a source. Research becomes more reliable when those elements travel with the number or statement being discussed.
Write down the claim first
Identify exactly what you want to know: who holds an office, whether someone appears on a ballot, what a committee reported spending, or how a member voted on a question. Each claim calls for a different source. A biography, a campaign website and a financial report can all be useful without answering the same question.
Keep identity, scope and date together
Record the entity identifier, jurisdiction, election or reporting period and source publication. These details prevent a correct fact from being attached to the wrong person, place or time. A name-only match can be misleading, especially when campaigns or institutions have changed names or when a person has sought several offices.
Selected verified releases. Dates describe product releases, not the freshness of every underlying public record.
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Clearer November ballots and dated public records
Federal finance imports, current officeholders, reviewed November lists and official voting sources have been checked for the pre-election release.
Current-office labels use the House and Senate rosters, independently of campaign filing status.
Spending anomalies and superseded rows remain accessible while being excluded from current monetary totals. Shared committee summaries are counted once per cycle.
Verified ballot names lead comparisons and race lists. Every source check keeps its date and exact geographic scope.
Los Angeles measures include the final official guide’s summaries and submitted arguments. The results directory links to official destinations and labels unresolved office fallbacks.
November candidate lists and voting-deadline fields are still incomplete nationwide. A current import does not mean every newly filed report is processed, and unresolved source conflicts remain visible. Electionpedia does not provide a nationwide live results feed.
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Submit ideas for moderator review
Feature suggestions can now be received privately without an account or a paid AI moderation service.
A private review queue receives suggestions before publication.
Explicit moderator approval opens an idea for community voting; rejected ideas stay private.
Submission receipts clearly distinguish received from published. Existing votes remain unchanged.
This is product feedback, not the discussion forum. Forum accounts, page comments and the newsletter still require connected services. Review is manual; there is no guaranteed review time.
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Follow ideas from feedback to release
The feedback board now separates what you can use today from what is still to build.
Delivery notes on all five Electionpedia roadmap priorities.
A public changelog with dated updates and direct links to the work.
Existing proposal IDs and community votes are preserved.
