=====''Data and Research Resources''----=====

There are a growing amount of resources available on the internet that will make your life easier if you're willing to take the time out to look for them. Before it hits crunch-time, do some searching on [[http://www.google.com Google]], search around the following websites for new material, and look at what those websites link to. If you come across something worthwhile, please add it to this list.

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===Subscriptions===
[[APStyleBook AP Style Book]]

===Candidates, Elections, Party-Changes, and Resignations/Vacancies===
~-[[http://www.politicsone.com Politics1]]
~-[[http://www.thegreenpapers.com The Green Papers]]
~-[[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/Calendar.html Our Campaigns' Calendar]]
~-[[http://www.nass.org/ National Association of Secretaries of State]]
~-[[http://www.electionline.org Election Line]]
~- Ballotpedia
~- Inside Gov
~-voter guides on ballot measures: http://web1.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Features_of_official_voter_guides,_compared_by_state

~-[[http://www.ballot-access.org/ Ballot Access News]]
~- [[http://openelections.net/ Open Elections]]- official election results/"Vote Totals"

~- [[TermsofOffice Terms of Office/Term End Dates]]


===State-By-State Information===
~-[[http://www.csg.org/ Council of State Governments]]
~-[[http://www.ncsl.org/ National Conference of State Legislatures]]
~-[[http://www.nga.org National Governors Association]]
~-[[http://nass.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=226&Itemid=469 NASS surveys and reports]]
~-[[http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/drupal/view-content-type/1219 CSG's Book of the States]]
~-[[http://www.statesperform.org/DataBuilder.aspx CSG's "States Perform"]]
~-[[http://www.stateside.com/thefiftystates/index.shtml Stateside Associates]]
~-[[http://www.statescape.com/ Statescape]]
~-[[https://www.multistate.com/content/state-local-resources Multistate]]
~-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_legislatures Wikipedia Comparison of State Legislatures]]

===Local Information===
- opencivicdata.org
- [[http://www.naco.org/ National Association of Counties (NACO)]]
- [[http://www.nlc.org/ National League of Cities (NLC)]]
- [[http://www.natat.org/ Association of Towns and Townships (NATaT)]]
- [[http://www.census.gov/govs/go/ US Census' Census of Government]]
- [[http://www.countyexecutives.org/cea/index.php County Executives of America]]
- [[http://www.city-data.com/ City-Data]]
- [[http://icma.org International City/County Management Association (ICMA)]]
- [[http://pages.e-democracy.org/DemocracyMap_Representatives Democracy Map]]
- ballotpedia

===Voter Information===
~-[[http://www.canivote.org/ Can I Vote?]]
~-[[http://nass.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=330 Polling Hours]]
~-[[https://votinginfoproject.org/ Voting Information Project]]
~-NOI/Ballot Information Project
~- Voter Registration Tools: [[http://www.rockthevote.com/get-involved/register-voters/ Rock the Vote]]

===Voter Engagement===
- [[http://www.votewithfriends.net/ Vote With Friends]]
- [[http://www.ivoted2012.org/ I Voted]]
- [[http://www.internetvotes.org/ Internet Votes]]
- Rock the Vote
- Voto Latino

===Redistricting Laws and Information===
~-[[http://www.senate.mn/departments/scr/redist/Red2010/Redistricting_Law_2010.pdf Redistricting Law 2010]]

===Electoral College Information===
~-[[http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/links.html U.S. Electoral College]]


===Judicial Content===
- PACER with RECAP
- Oyez
- Judgepedia
- [[https://www.ajs.org/ Judicial Selection - National Center for State Courts]]
- ++American Judicature Society++ ([[https://www.ajs.org/ dissolved 2015]]

===Presidential Content===
- [[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/#axzz20Kpzx8RK American Presidency Project]]
- [[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=CPD Government Printing Office]]
- [[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=FR Federal Register]]

===Legislative Content===
- [[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/# Government Printing Office]]
- [[http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/category/caucuses/ That's My Congress]]- Caucuses
- [[http://kapcitizen.org/index.cfm KAP Citizen]]
- [[http://thomas.loc.gov/home/LegislativeData.php?&n=Record THOMAS]]

===Biographical Content===
- [[http://www.gmcl.org/database.htm race and ethnicity]]

===Archival Content from the Web===
- [[https://archive.org/web/ Wayback Machine]]
- [[https://politicaladarchive.org/ Political Ad Archive]]

===Ratings Directories===
- [[http://wikipedia.org Wikipedia]]
- [[http://votereports.org/ Vote Reports]]
- [[http://littlesis.org/lists Little Sis]]
- [[http://ontheissues.org/Issue_Grid.htm On the Issues]]
- [[http://vis.org VIS]]
- [[http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/campaigns_and_elections/voter_guides.cfm?state= Judicial Voter Guides]]
- [[http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/methods/judicial_performance_evaluations.cfm?state= Judicial Performance Evaluations]]

===Factcheckers===
Independent Nonpartisan Groups:
- [[Politifact]]
- [[Factcheck.org Factcheck.org]]
Major news source with structured content:
- [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker Washington Post Fact Checker]]
Other cited, major news sources with less-structured fact-checking content:
- [[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/politics/series/check_point/index.html New York Times' Check Point]] (at least in 2008)
- [[http://bigstory.ap.org/search/site/fact%20check AP's Fact Check]] (primarily by Calvin Woodward)- also spinmeter examining rhetoric and promises, promises for campaign promises
state-level fact checkers:
- for example: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/azfactcheck/ http://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/category/poligraph/
- also see: http://www.politifact.com/curation/national/archive/
partisan fact checkers:
- left-leaning: [[http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/ MediaMatters]]
- right leaning: News-Busters (can't find?)


===Evaluating Candidates on other Dimensions===
==Rating candidates on other dimensions==
- [[http://www.taxpayer.net- Taxpayers for Common Sens]]- earmarks
- [[http://www.washingtonwatch.com/ Washington Watch]]- costs of bills
- [[http://cagw.org/ Citizens Against Government Waste]]- pork
- [[http://www.citizensforethics.org/scandals-and-scoundrels CREW]]- ethics
- [[http://ohmygov.com/leaderboards Oh My Gov]]- social and media impact
- [[https://data.sunlightlabs.com/dataset/House-Office-Retention-Rates/y43j-4t5v Sunlight's datasets (also see APIs)]]- various dimensions

==Influence in Politics (Campaign Finance, Special Interest Groups, Ratings)==
- [[http://votereports.org/ Vote Reports]]
- [[http://littlesis.org/lists Little Sis]]
- [[http://ontheissues.org/Issue_Grid.htm On the Issues]]
- [[http://vis.org VIS]]
- [[http://www.opensecrets.org/ Open Secrets]]
- [[http://maplight.org MapLight]]
- Open Congress
- fec.gov
- OpenGovernment
- [[http://followthemoney.org FollowTheMoney]]
- Influence Explorer
- Other Sunlight Foundation Projects
- [[http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/category/caucuses/ That's My Congress]]- Caucuses

==Issues==
- [[http://www.publicagenda.org/pages/csg-energy#keyfacts Public Agenda]]

===Location to District Matching===
- Aristotle (formerly Legislative Demographic Services)
- Azavea - Cicero API - as of 2013 "We had 2.2m requests to /search last year, and at that cast, it would be over Aristotle's price of $8k. However, they might have some really fine grained results if that's what we're looking for. But so might Aristotle..." as of 2014 "Doesn't appear Azavea has redistricting data(current districts only) available." -Mike Shultz
- [[http://www.maponics.com/products/gis-map-data/city-boundaries/overview/ Maponics]]
- [[http://www.corelogic.com/products/county-boundaries.aspx Core Logic]] , [[http://www.corelogic.com/products/municipal-boundary-layer.aspx More Core Logic]]
- Google's Civic API -as of 2014 "it's garbage" -Mike Shultz
- DemocracyMap - as of 2013 "still has a long way to go" -Mike Shultz
- [[http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Boundaries]]
- [[https://www.knowwho.com/ Know Who]] - as of 2013 "I would not recommend KnowWho unless they're super cheap"
- usgeocoder- as of 2014 does not have redistricting data
- OpenStates- as of 2014 is officials only, so no redistricting data. Nor is there an address/zip lookup.

===Partnerships===
[[http://wiki.votesmart.org/CategoryExternalDataSources Sites We Partner With]]

Site to Partner with in future?:
~-[[https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/ Overseas Vote Foundation]]


===Similar Sites to Get Inspired By===
~-[[http://www.votegopher.com/index.php Vote Gopher]]
~-[[http://vote411.org/ Vote411- League of Women Voters]]
~-[[http://www.votimus.com/user/index.aspx Votimus]]
~-[[http://www.ndi.org/electionscalendar International Elections]]
~-[[http://www.dakotapolitics.com/Kari_Conrad DakotaPolitics.com]]
~-[[http://www.allballots.com/ All Ballots]]
~-[[http://vermont-elections.org/elections1/2008CandWebSites.htm Vermont Candidates]]
~-[[http://www.nhelects.com/ NH elects]]
~-[[http://watchdog.net/about/ Watchdog]], [[http://watchdog.net/ More Watchdog]]
~-[[http://www.thevoterguide.org/a-national/index.do?i=4 National Voter Guide]]
~-[[http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm#Foreign_Policy On the Issues]]
~-[[http://www.systransoft.com/translation-products/server/systran-enterprise-server Example of Translation Tools]]
~-[[http://www.nhelects.com/images/Obama_vs_McCain.pdf NH elects' candidate comparison]]
~-[[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerDetail.html?ContainerID=23822 Our Campaigns]]
~-[[http://www.redistrictinggame.com/index.php?pg=game Redistricting Game]]

===APIs===
~-[[http://www.govtrack.us/ Gov Track]]
~-[[http://wiki.opengovdata.org/index.php/OGosh OpenGovData]]
~-[[http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/resources/ Sunlight Foundation]]
~-[[http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/introducing-the-congress-api/ NY Times API]]
~-[[http://wikifoia.pbwiki.com/ Freedom of Information Act Wiki]]
~- http://www.techandciviclife.org/civic-data/

===Advocacy===
~-[[http://www.e-thepeople.org/about/fullstory e.thepeople]], [[http://www.e-thepeople.org/about/fullstory/syndication More e.thePeople]]
~-[[http://www.advocacyguru.com/tipsheet.htm Advocacy Guru Tips]]
~-[[http://www.advocacyguru.com/advocacy_faq.htm Advocacy Guru Info]]
~-[[http://www.policymagic.org/electron.htm Electronic Advocacy]]
~- [[http://web.archive.org/web/20100724061935/http://act.fixcongressfirst.org/viewall Change Congress/Fix Congress First/Root Strikers]]
~- [[http://askthem.io/ Ask Them]]
~- PopVox

===K-12 Civics Education===
http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/
http://www.mobilize.org/index.php?tray=content&tid=top396&cid=8
http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/page9623.cfm
http://www.arsalyn.org/Display.asp?Page=democracyinaction
http://www.arsalyn.org/display.asp?page=specialprojects#vote
http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html
http://www.civicyouth.org/
http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/page9664.cfm
http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/page9597.cfm




===Purely link-providing sites===
~- [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoQuErjcV2a0dF85QTRRSEFtR3pfcjN4VHdwLVYzSXc#gid=1 Sunlight's directory of transparency orgs]]
~-[[http://www.politicalinformation.com/ Political Information Search Engine]]
~-[[http://www.politicsonline.com/content/main/resources/ PoliticsOnline Links]]
~- [[http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Applications Civic Commons]]

and, of course resources available on our own site