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Looks like this API does a lot of the heavy lifting for this: https://developers.google.com/civic-information/docs/v2/
Yes, that's one of our primary data sources. We're working on leaving it, however, because we're also Google-phobes.
By the way, my address has 30 people, all the same color.
Fantastic service. Should it then link to their position all the top issues, like for, against, or refuses to commit? By the way, my address has 30 people, all the same color.
And as for all your reps being the same color, funny how democracy works out like that...
Actually, this title doesn't do the service justice -- it yields detail clear down to local offices and gives a detail '+' link for each to get details like contact information. For example, this is what is returned for a given, random Sunnyvale, CA address; the lone change I would suggest is to have the county and then city offices listed last to maintain a sequence of decreasing granularity. Note that Sunnyvale is…
> it yields detail clear down to local offices It has city councils, but it doesn't have any local districts. In Sunnyvale, you are also being represented on at least the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District[1], the El Camino Health Care District[2], and the Santa Clara Valley Water District[3]. If you are curious how I figured this out, I went to the Santa Clara County Local Agency Formation website, which has…
The site could also specify a numeric input type for the zip code field so mobile browsers will display the numeric keypad instead of the alphabetic keyboard.
Virginia for example holds their major state elections the year after Presidential elections. Local elections come up at seemingly random times. I vote absentee and remember coming home for a visit and my parents asking me to vote in some small election that was being held in the middle of summer.
Being able to add all of the offices to my calendar, ideally with important deadlines like when you can apply for absentee, vote early, and when you have to have your ballot in by would be amazing.
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…
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.
I once started trying to make something similar, but would also try to rank how "diluted" you are in the democracy by ranking your representative by a historical monarch that ruled over a similar sized constituency.
I approached it by trying to work from the census data but found it too difficult to work with. What data sources are you working with? Do you offer an API?
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.
Maybe a multi-column layout? Anyway, nice work.