About VoterHQ
VoterHQ is a nonpartisan civic reference platform. Every factual claim links to a dated primary source. We track elected officials, congressional stock trades, campaign finance, elections, and ballot measures — all in one place.
Finding accurate, up-to-date information about who represents me and what they're actually doing was harder than it should be. Voter information is scattered across government sites, often outdated, and rarely connected in a way that lets you see the full picture. VoterHQ is my attempt to fix that — one reliable, cited source for every level of elected office.
About Insights Assist™
Insights Assist™ is VoterHQ's built-in AI research companion — available on every data page across the platform. Ask a natural-language question about the records in front of you and it answers using only VoterHQ's verified, cited data. Powered by Anthropic's Claude, the system scopes every answer to the public records on your screen, so hallucination is eliminated by design — every answer traces back to data we've already cited and verified.
Unlike open-ended AI chat tools, Insights Assist™ won't speculate, predict elections, or characterize officials as good or bad. It reports what the record shows — for voters, journalists, and researchers who want to understand what their officials are actually doing.
About Notable Items
Throughout VoterHQ, certain votes, bills, and trades are flagged as “Notable.” This designation is rule-based and applied automatically — never editorial.
A vote is notable when the member voted against their own party's majority on that roll call. No judgment is made about whether the vote was correct or significant — the rule is purely structural.
ExampleNotableVoted Yea on H.R. 1234 — party majority voted NayA bill is notable when the member is the lead sponsor and the bill advanced past a significant legislative threshold: reported out of committee, passed the House, passed the Senate, presented to the President, vetoed, or enacted into law. Cosponsorships are never notable.
ExampleNotableSponsored H.R. 5678 — Reported out of committee, March 2026A trade is notable when the disclosed transaction amount is at or above $50,000, or when the disclosure was filed more than 45 days after the STOCK Act reporting window, or both.
ExampleNotableAAPL Purchase · $50,001–$100,000 · Filed 67 days late
These criteria are computed nightly from official source data. VoterHQ does not select notable items by editorial judgment, topic prominence, or any measure of political significance.
Our data sources are government records and established civic APIs. We do not editorialize on candidates or ballot measures. We report what officials do — votes, trades, disclosures — and let the record speak.
Methodology
| Data type | Source | Update cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Federal legislators | unitedstates/congress (GitHub) | Daily |
| Congressional votes | GovInfo / Clerk of the House | Nightly |
| Stock trade disclosures | Senate Electronic Financial Disclosures | Nightly |
| FEC campaign finance | FEC Open Data API | Nightly |
| State legislators | OpenStates (GitHub + API) | Weekly |
| Election data | State SOS sites (hand-reviewed) | Per-event |
| Ballot measures | State SOS sites (hand-reviewed) | Per-event |
Automated data — federal legislators, votes, trades, FEC finance — refreshes nightly via scheduled jobs. State-level election and ballot data is reviewed by hand before publishing because automated sources are less reliable for these categories. Our target is fewer than 0.1% data errors. When errors are found, they are corrected within 24 hours and logged at voterhq.com/corrections.
Ballot measures and local election data are marked hand-reviewed where applicable. These items are verified against official state sources before publication.
Visual decisions — type sizes, spacing, elevation, corner radii — follow Google's Material Design 3 specification. Our token-level implementation is documented in the repository'ssrc/design/MATERIAL_3_FOUNDATIONS.mdreference.
Corrections
When errors are found, we fix them within 24 hours and publish every revision publicly. The corrections log records what changed, when, and why — no silent edits.
View corrections log →Data Updates
Every data category on VoterHQ — federal legislators, votes, trades, campaign finance, state legislators, and elections — shows its last refresh timestamp so you always know how current the information is.
View live data timestamps →Contact
Questions, corrections, and press inquiries welcome. Reach out via LinkedIn. For data corrections, use the feedback button on any page or submit directly at /corrections.