Every claim on this site comes from a public record. When we get one wrong, we want to know.
This site profiles candidates using their votes, their filings and their own public words. That is a lot of records, and some of them will be wrong: a vote read against the wrong bill, a figure that has gone stale, a quote put in the wrong mouth. Telling us is the fastest way to get it fixed.
Factual errors about a record. A vote attributed to the wrong person or the wrong bill, an office or a district that is not theirs.
Misattributed quotes. If they did not say it, or did not say it in the way we have it, it comes off the page.
Wrong money figures. An amount, a cycle or a committee that does not match the filing it came from.
Stale statuses. Someone who has dropped out, lost a primary, or stated a position since we last checked.
Email info@butwhatcanyoudo.org with a subject line starting [correction].
Tell us the candidate's name, what the site says, and what it should say instead. If you have a link we can check, a roll call, a filing, a news report, a page on their own site, send that too. A correction that arrives with a source is the fastest kind to act on. Without one we have to research the claim from the beginning, which we will still do.
We check the claim against the sources rather than against our memory of it. If the site is wrong, we fix it, and the corrected claim ships with a receipt like everything else here: the record it came from, and the date we read it. If we cannot find the error, we will write back and tell you what we checked.
We would rather show nothing than show something wrong.
If we have your record wrong, write to us and we will check it against the sources the same way. Email info@butwhatcanyoudo.org with a subject line starting [campaign]. Writing from the campaign's own domain is the quickest way for us to confirm the message is yours.
You can also state your position in your own words. Send a written statement and it can be published on your candidate page word for word, next to the record, with nothing taken out but signature blocks and legal footers.
A person reads every statement before it goes up.
We do not take down accurate, sourced information because it is unflattering. A vote is a vote and a filing is a filing, and if a record is right it stays, with the source shown so anyone can check it. Corrections are about accuracy. That is the whole test.