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Creating a scorecard

Build a scorecard in four steps — Scope, Bills, Rules and Review — then change or delete it later.

Applies toEditor license

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You build a scorecard in a four-step wizard: Scope, Bills, Rules and Review. When you finish, you have a saved scorecard that grades every member of one legislature on the bills you chose, with its results ready to share in your organization.

Build a scorecard#

  1. Open Tracking → Scorecards and select New scorecard.

  2. Scope. Under Start from, choose From a saved view or list or Reuse earlier rules. Pick the legislature and session, tick the chambers to score, and check the name. Optionally narrow Who is scored to a party and change Sharing. Select Next. See Scope.

  3. Bills. For each bill, set the position (Support or Oppose), the weight, and if you want, a public rationale. Add bills with Add a bill and take out the ones you don't mean to score. Select Next. See Bills.

  4. Rules. Choose how to treat a member who didn't vote, and the Minimum bills for a score. The table below shows every member under each rule, so you can see what your choice changes. Select Next. See Rules.

  5. Review. Read Before you save, set the Display options, and look over the scores. Then select Save scorecard. See Reviewing before you save.

The scorecard opens on its own page, as anyone it's shared with sees it.

While you work#

Nothing is stored until you save on the Review step. Until then the heading shows Draft · not saved. From the Bills step on, the scores are recomputed from your draft as you change it, using the same computation a saved scorecard gets, so what you review is what you save.

Use Back, or the numbered steps along the top, to return to a step you've already reached. Cancel asks before it throws your draft away.

Changing a scorecard later#

Select Edit on the scorecard's page or on its row in the list. The same wizard opens with every step reachable, and Save changes on the Review step stores what you changed. You can edit a scorecard if you own it, if it's shared with you to edit, or if you're an Owner or Admin, as long as you hold a Full license.

If an officials view filters by the scorecard under Scorecard rating and other people's webhooks send from that view, the Review step says how many. Changing the scorecard's bills, positions, session, chambers, members or rules pauses those webhooks until their owners resume them; a new name, display or sharing doesn't, and neither does putting the bills in another order or rewording a rationale. See Whose webhook it is.

If you can't start one#

  • "Building a scorecard takes a Full license." Ask an Owner or Admin for a Full license. See Roles and licenses.
  • Your plan doesn't include scorecards, or keeps no more. The list shows how many your organization keeps against its plan. Delete one, or see Plans and what they include.

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