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Our proprietary Legislator Scoring Engine™ powers fully customizable scoring models—far beyond basic vote tracking. Build formulas that reflect your mission, including advanced logic other platforms can’t support, like awarding bonus points for bill prime and/or cosponsorships, excluding absent/abstain votes from the scoring, and more.
Yes, you can Bring Your Own Data and don't have to use a separate legislation data provider, unless you want to.
Vote Index, Total Scores, or Letter Grading. For any of these options, you can also set color-coded scoring ranges.
Vote Index scores display as 0-100 in the scorecard. Scores less than 0 display as 0. Scores greater than 100 display as 100.
Vote Index with Bonus Scores display as 0-100+ in the scorecard. Scores less than 0 display as 0. Scores greater than 100 display as 100, 101, 102, etc.
Total Scores are the total number of points and can display as positive or negative scores in the scorecard.
Letter Grading is based on the Vote Index scores. We then calculate those into letter grades for you. You can choose any scoring range for any letter grade.
Most organizations award a specific number of points per legislative action. Example:
Our Legislator Scoring Engine™ can also support bonus points in most cases. Contact us and we can help come up with a good solution for you.
We recommend keeping it as straightforward as possible to make it easy to understand for the general public. If you haven't published a scorecard before, something like the following is very effective and intuitive for most users:
Yes. Lifetime scoring displays on each individual legislator’s page. See the legislator pages (click Voting Record) on International Justice Mission's Congressional Scorecard or the ACLU-PA’s scorecard for live examples.
Yes! Contact us and we'll walk you through it and can show you how it would affect your scores before they go live.
Yes! Contact us and we'll walk you through it and can show you how it would affect your scores before they go live. We can also support scoring Sponsorships as bonus points, which other platforms can't handle.
Yes! Contact us and we'll walk you through it and can show you how it would affect your scores before they go live. We can also support scoring your weighted Sponsorships as bonus points, which other platforms can't handle.
Yes. Our Legislator Scoring Engine™ can handle that.
Most organizations who do this use Prime Sponsorship as a Bonus Point. However, you could also include Co-sponsorships as Bonus Points as well.
You'll want to be aware of how bonus points affect the outcome of the score. Using bonus points, it is possible that a legislator who takes negative actions would still get a score of 100. For example, if you're using Sponsorships as a Bonus Points:
Votes Taken
Legislator voted in your favor 8 out of 10 times.
Sponsorships as Bonus Points
Legislator also sponsored 2 good bills
Final Score
Legislator's score would be 100%
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Of course. This works in our Legislator Scoring Engine™.
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Yes, we’ve automated it. Bills scored favorably have a Support position. Bills scored negatively have a Oppose position.