Legislator Scorecards
Building a scorecard of how legislators voted on the bills you care about, reading it, and putting it on your website.
Building a scorecard
- About legislator scorecardsConceptWhat a scorecard's score means and what it doesn't, who builds one, and who sees it.
- Creating a scorecardHow toBuild a scorecard in four steps — Scope, Bills, Rules and Review — then change or delete it later.
- Scope: legislature, session and chambersHow toChoose where a scorecard's bills come from, its legislature and session, the chambers it can score, and who is scored.
- Bills: positions, weights and rationaleHow toSet your position on each bill, how much it counts, which roll call is scored, and the public rationale shown with the score.
- Rules: missing votes and the minimumConceptHow a scorecard treats a member who didn't vote, what is never counted, and when a member has too few bills for a score.
- Grades and bandsReferenceThe letter grade each score range gets, and how grades are given and shown.
- Reviewing before you saveHow toThe checks on the Review step — what each flags and what to do — and saving the scorecard.
Results and publishing
- Display optionsReferenceThe tabs, party colors, saved filters and sorts, and viewer filters that decide how a scorecard's results look.
- Reading the resultsConceptWhat each of a scorecard's tabs shows — Legislators, Bills, Matrix, Distribution, Map, Tiles and Methodology — and how filters work.
- A legislator's arithmeticConceptThe voting record panel line by line, with a worked example of how one legislator's score is computed.
- Putting a scorecard on your websiteHow toPut a scorecard in a widget, publish it and embed it on your site — and what readers see.