The seat view
The practical output of everything in this area, on one page, for the unit a citizen actually votes in.
What is on it
- The incumbent, with their voting record and whatever awards that record earned — or the absence of one, which is not an accusation. See Politicians.
- The strongest challenger from your own side, assessed against published rubrics.
- The strongest challenger who is not from your side — whatever party that turns out to be.
- How much is known about each of them, stated as a figure, so a thin record cannot be mistaken for a clean one.
- The seat's own facts — the district, the schedule, the filing deadline, the primary date.
The third column is not optional
The cross-party challenger column appears on every door, including yours, and it is not "the paired party's challenger" — there are no pairs here. It is the strongest challenger for this seat who is not from your side, whichever party that is.
This is the single rule that keeps the product from being a campaign tool. A page that only ever showed your own team would be exactly that, and it would be worth nothing to a citizen trying to decide who can actually hold the seat.
Awards, never scores
Everything published about a person on a seat view is an award, or the absence of one. Never a score, a rating, a grade or points. The percentage belongs to the award, never to the person: a 72% Llama Award, not scored 72. And not given is not an accusation — it means we assessed and found nothing to give, or that we do not yet know enough to say. Those two are different states and the product never collapses them into one.
- The Monkey Award — democracy damage, from the voting record.
- The Llama Award — democracy repair, from the voting record.
- The Flamingo Award — everything outside the voting record.
- The Wall — why those two groups never mix.
Finding yours
Find who represents you resolves your address to your seats. Nothing about that requires an account, and none of it leaves your machine when you run the app locally — see Get Started.