Methodology and sources
Edulect publishes the public record and links to it. Nothing on this site is our opinion, and nothing is generated without a source you can open yourself.
Sources
U.S. Census Bureau geocoder
Turns an address or ZIP code into a congressional district, city, and county.
Live on each search, then cached anonymously.
Congress.gov (Library of Congress API)
Member profiles, terms, committees, sponsored and cosponsored bills, House roll-call votes.
Refreshed daily.
Federal Election Commission
People who filed a statement of candidacy for the current cycle.
Refreshed daily.
What the assistant may say
- Verified records. Specific votes, bills, terms, and contact details come only from the sources above and always carry a link.
- Your place. The city, county, and state from your own search are used to answer local questions in the right place.
- General civics and public reference pages. Things we don't cache — mayors, county boards, governors, how a state legislature works — come from public reference pages, and the answer says so and suggests confirming with the city, county, or state site.
- It declines opinions, endorsements, rankings, predictions, and voting-logistics guesses, pointing you to your state or local election office instead.
Known limits
- Federal offices only for now — no state legislators or local officeholders in our records.
- A ZIP code alone uses its center point, and some ZIP codes span several districts.
- Vote history covers a recent window, not every vote ever cast.
- An FEC filing is not a place on the ballot, and the field changes through the cycle.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us what page it's on and what the correct record says, with a link if you have one. Send it to corrections@getedulect.app. Where an upstream source is wrong, we say so on the page rather than silently overriding it.