Grade Your Representatives
Are They Working for You?
Embed an interactive scorecard on your website, showing which legislators are supporting your interests:
- Easy and quick to create
- Customizable - set individual weighting for votes, grade sponsors and co-sponsors
- Design your own weighting system - you decide the range of scores and criteria
- Scores presented in several eye catching displays - bar charts, grids of results, a heat map of districts
- Share as a link on social media or embed directly into your website
- Updates automatically as new votes are tallied
See an example embedded legislator scorecard in action below, about business legislation in North Dakota, and other live examples.
Scroll further down for a case study of how scorecards can influence legislators.
Visual Scorecard
A third party tool is also available, which includes legislator pictures instead of charts and graphs. See National Parks Action Fund for an example or visit https://legislativescorecard.us/ for more information.
LIVE EXAMPLES
How Can You Use a Scorecard to Move the Needle?
Scorecards are surprisingly easy to create and customize, we do the hard work for you.
Influence Legislation - a case study
We’ve seen our scorecards help organizations engage members and even move the needle on their topics. One notable example is The Idaho Freedom Foundation. They've seen several benefits from using a scorecard:
- Negative ratings have prompted stakeholders to reach out to the Foundation and discuss issues
- Representatives value their ranking and try to keep a high percentage score
- Lawmakers with a small staff use Foundation ratings as an important data point, even when they don't agree