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Correct your own record

If you are the subject of a record on this site, you have a correction channel, and using it is not an uphill fight.

The rule

Self-interest is labelled, never blocked.

A politician correcting their own voting record is exactly the correction the movement wants. The person with the strongest incentive to find an error is also the person most likely to actually find one. Refusing information because of who it came from would cost the record accuracy and buy nothing; so instead the submission is flagged as self-interested, that flag is visible to reviewers, and the submission is reviewed on its merits.

What to file

Point at the specific row. "This vote is recorded as a yes and the roll call shows a no" is actionable in minutes. "This page is unfair" is not, though you can file that too as feedback.

Sources help you here more than they help us: a citation to the public record closes the question without anybody having to weigh your word against ours.

Staff filing on your behalf

Staff can file as a delegate. The delegation renders unverified until an admin confirms it, and the correction is reviewed in the meantime. Requiring the paperwork before accepting a correction would mean publishing something wrong for longer than necessary, which is a strange thing for an accuracy process to do.

What you will get back

Approved, sent back for changes, or declined — and the last two come with a stated reason, shown to you in the reviewer's own words. Nothing is silently dropped.

What the correction channel is not

It is not a route to remove an accurate record, and it is not a negotiation over the arithmetic. The equations are published; if you believe the arithmetic itself is wrong, that is a fair argument and the right place to make it is against the published math, in public.