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Jim Gilliam backed an idea we had to make finding out what you could run for and how to get on the ballot. It developed into the free site runforoffice.org He was brilliant, fierce…

Ha! Thank you for mentioning that. There is an Open Data org in Canada that we've been working with, and we are also assembling the GIS data for the UK. Hope to have it within the …

Ha! Thank you for mentioning that. There is an Open Data org in Canada that we've been working with, and we are also assembling the GIS data for the UK. Hope to have it within the …

Yes to all of this. There are algorithms to be applied, we just need more/better data to fine tune them. Of course, it's politics, so it's more art than science, but there is a lot…

Yes, you're correct. Attorney General, Treasurer positions, Law Enforcement positions, and a few others do require advanced degrees. We have plans to include that in our data. Than…

Thanks very much! Yes, it is showing past results, and we probably won't get to fixing those for another 2 weeks. Some states have been completely refreshed, but we have around 30 …

Thanks very much. You're right about including age requirements. We have the project in a stage where we just want to get it into people's hands to use. We have a lot of blank fiel…

I don't have as much experience building/selling software. I'm sure tha practically everyone on this board has better tech chops than me. I come from a poli-sci background and the …

Thanks, we do at @rfonb

Ha. Correct. Ironically, today of all days we are having problems with our GIS. One of our stressed out engineers is working on it!

You're right. We are going to have a more robust data set with those types of searchable features.

We'd love it. http://getinvolved.runforoffice.org/volunteer/?recruiter_id=...

Thanks very much!!

The purpose of the project is to do the local offices. If we don't have any for your county/town, it's just a matter of us not having volunteers for there. Local offices, in my per…

Dang. That's not the intention. We do have limited coverage regarding the local offices. We have done 50 of the largest counties in the US, which totals coverage of about 85 millio…

You can contact me directly at jimcupples@gmail.com and I'll have a Contact Us page up in a day or so.

That's incredibly kind of you to say. Thanks!

Yes on missing President. Our focus is kind of the reverse, but we'll definitely be including that information.

We are definitely interested in including both. We do have coverage of about 55 very large counties, but that leaves a lot yet to work on. And, we will include all Tribal governmen…

You are correct. We're behind on updating from the 11/2016 elections, but will get to them within the next week.

I couldn't agree more. You said it perfectly. The federal offices and state offices, all that stuff is easy. The hard work, and where the opportunity is, is figuring out the obscur…

We have all of the positions in the following counties, as well as all Federal, State, State legislative positions: County State Population Los Angeles County CA 10,100,000 New Yor…

I have to get to work, but would love to hear from anyone that's interested in this stuff. We are looking forward to building an API and helping people continue to build. Mostly, w…

You're correct in some regards, but the model of $=victory is not as consistent as it used to be. I think of David Brat beating House Speaker Jared Cantor in 2014 as being the cana…