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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.
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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.
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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.
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Three strong verification lanes
Use a channel the claimant did not invent for this request.
Electionpedia independently locates the channel before issuing a challenge. Government email is preferred, but local governments that do not use .gov still have a safe path.
Website challenge
Place a one-time token in DNS or on an independently linked official website. The token proves control of that domain, then a reviewer matches that control to the person or authorized team.
Published office contact
Electionpedia calls or writes through a phone number or address already published by the responsible government or filing authority—not contact supplied only in the claim.
What verified access can add
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- Official website, social, and contact links
- Current photo and short biography
- Candidate Standard and public-docket answers
- Correction requests backed by a primary source
What it can never buy
Control over the public record.
- No deletion of sourced filings, votes, results, or disclosures
- No favorable ranking, badge placement, or search treatment
- No unlabeled blending of claimant statements with official facts
- No publication before the verification challenge succeeds