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Organizations build legislative scorecards to help clearly measure how elected officials align with their priorities. Whether you’re tracking one state, Congress, or evaluating performance across many states, the process can be broken down into three straightforward steps. This guide outlines a simple, practical framework you can follow to build scorecards that are clear, credible, and easy to share.
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Identify bills that reflect your organizations priorities. Search for and select legislation that clearly aligns with your policy goals, represents meaningful decisions, supports the story you want your scorecard to tell. If you don't have a legislation search tool, we recommend BillTrack50 as one option. You can search for bills by issue, keyword, or bill number. Import those bills into your scorecard.
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Next, decide what your position is on each bill and rate them according to stance on the bill. A common scoring formula is: +1 point for each good bill, -1 point for each bad bill, 0 for bills you’re neutral on or monitoring.
Of course, scoring formulas can also be more complex and can include points for sponsorships, weighted scoring, considerations for absent votes, etc. As part of our service, we help you design the formula that's right for you.
Our service comes with a full integration package. So, we can take care of designing and setting up the scorecard(s) on your website for you, unless your development team prefers to set them up. We also include annual updates: new scorecard launches, legislator headshots, profiles and our Find Your Legislator by Address feature.
While we’re focused on the integration, you can plan your communications strategy. Most organizations consider social media, website alerts, newsletters, direct emails to legislators, and paid advertisements.
Start with one state, a congressional scorecard, or expand nationwide — your scorecards should scale with you.
“The plugin integrates beautifully with our WordPress site. It is easy to look up votes, specify our position, and generate the scores.
The team at Revive was very responsive to our specific needs when creating our scorecard. They are constantly very responsive and on top of all of our requests. We greatly enjoy working with them and their great service!”
National Parks Action Fund
See how the National Parks Action Fund worked with us to build their legislative scorecards and immediately extend their Facebook reach by 150K+ interactions.