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Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

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Post by epoch_100 »

thex10 wrote: post #146
epoch_100 wrote: post #97

To everyone posting here: I am a creator of this service. If you'd like to get in contact with us, email secure@politiwatch.org! We're extremely encouraged by all the positive feedback here, and we're glad to provide a service that you all found helpful.

This is awesome. Are you looking for engineers/volunteers? Also, don't listen to all these feature requests and get scope creep. The only additional thing I'd love to see is even more granular levels of officials, but I know how difficult/nonexistent the data is there.

Email us at secure@politiwatch.org if you'd like to get involved.

Thanks for the interest!

Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

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Post by tfgg »

thex10 wrote: post #146
epoch_100 wrote: post #97

To everyone posting here: I am a creator of this service. If you'd like to get in contact with us, email secure@politiwatch.org! We're extremely encouraged by all the positive feedback here, and we're glad to provide a service that you all found helpful.

This is awesome. Are you looking for engineers/volunteers? Also, don't listen to all these feature requests and get scope creep. The only additional thing I'd love to see is even more granular levels of officials, but I know how difficult/nonexistent the data is there.

Agree with not getting involved in feature creep. There are hundreds of failed civic tech projects, mostly because they tried to do too much. Users do want "positions" or "issues" etc. but those are really hard to find / build good data for. That's the next level!

epoch_100: Stick to making an awesome data source and interface to solve the one problem you've picked :)

In the UK mySociety does similar things, their WriteToThem services gives a drill-down on the politicians for a given postcode. You'd probably be really interested in their http://www.everypolitician.org/ project, which is trying to do this for the entire planet -- but generally working from the top down.

I'm involved with https://democracyclub.org.uk/, which works particularly on developing really good election data. epoch_100, reach out to one of us if you want to chat :)

Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

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Post by [deleted] »

fnj wrote: post #138
fnj wrote: post #34

A technical tour de force, but the premise is flawed. "I" have no representatives. "We" have representatives as a group. The mob who rules by force of numbers; all strictly democratically acting. Right off the top, the president, VP, both senators, federal and state representative, governor, and lieutenant governor; every one of them is 100% useless to me personally, because not a single one of them shares even one t…

The knee-jerk intolerant censors are out in force today, eh?

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Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

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Post by [deleted] »

fnj wrote: post #138
fnj wrote: post #34

A technical tour de force, but the premise is flawed. "I" have no representatives. "We" have representatives as a group. The mob who rules by force of numbers; all strictly democratically acting. Right off the top, the president, VP, both senators, federal and state representative, governor, and lieutenant governor; every one of them is 100% useless to me personally, because not a single one of them shares even one t…

The knee-jerk intolerant censors are out in force today, eh?

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Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

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Post by pkaeding »

akiselev wrote: post #145
pkaeding wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good luck with that! The side of the road is no place for yelling at or threatening cops.

Yeah that would probably not go well at all. However, there's no reason you can't have a polite conversation where you imply you know the sheriff personally. You can ask something like "How is Laurie doing?" and then something relevant like "My sister used to hang out with her in San Jose State" and "How are those new jail cameras working out? I heard she bought them herself! Wow!" just based off of Wikipedia [1] and…

Yeah, that might work, as a social engineering tactic to get out of a ticket.

Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

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Post by padobson »

camiller wrote: post #106
padobson wrote: post #82

I got my list and was pleased to see things like Auditor and Coroner, but why no state senator or state representative? There's also no judicial branch to be found, which may not matter much for the Federal Supreme Court, because they're appointed, but just about every jurisdiction I fall under, State Supreme, State Appeals, Local Criminal, Local family, has an elected judge. Judges tend to be a major source of ballo…

Coroner is an elected position where you live? At any rate, I did get my state senator and mayor, but no city council rep. Around here judges are not elected, but we do vote to remove or retain judges. Generally every year there will be one or two that someone is campaigning to have removed.

>Coroner is an elected position where you live?

Sure is. I heard an anecdote through a common friend that a past coroner, who wasn't personally political, was running for office.

My friend, a Republican, asked why the coroner was running as a Democrat. The coroner replied, "Because this is Trumbull County and I want to be coroner."

Anywho, it's often an uncontested race, as it was in 2016: http://www.boe.co.trumbull.oh.us/pdfs/Results_16P.pdf

Re: Enter your address and find out everyone who represents you in U.S. government

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