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Volunteers from Code for America’s SF Brigade show new campaign‑finance visualizer
Summary
Members of the SF Brigade showed transparentvoting.com, an open‑source visualization of Form 460 and lobbying data that lets users explore contributions, expenditures and lobbying contacts by candidate or proposition. Commissioners praised the project and asked about sustainability and data quality.
Members of the SF Brigade, a local volunteer group affiliated with the nonprofit Code for America, demonstrated transparentvoting.com at the San Francisco Ethics Commission meeting on Sept. 22. The site draws on the city’s open data to show fundraising totals, expenditures and lobby‑contact records for Board of Supervisors candidates and local ballot measures.
"What they do is they try to bring people who are working in technology together with civic groups that need help," Asha John, an SF Brigade volunteer, told the commission as she walked through visualizations of Schedule A…
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