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Ethics Commission unveils interactive campaign finance dashboards, to publish ballot-measure and ‘democracy facts’ tools in October
Summary
Information Technology Officer Steven Massey demonstrated new, open-data campaign finance dashboards that let users filter 260,000 transactions, inspect late contributions, and view candidate and ballot-measure analytics; the Democracy Facts label and ballot-measure dashboard will be released after the pre-election filing deadline in early October.
Steven Massey, the Ethics Commission’s Information Technology Officer, demonstrated new interactive campaign finance tools at a Commission meeting, saying the platform “is built on open data” and that it includes campaign finance transactions stretching back to about 1998.
Massey told commissioners the office has developed three public-facing projects: a campaign finance dashboard for candidate activity; a ballot-measure dashboard that lets users browse committees by measure letter and identify top contributors and geographic origins; and a “democracy facts” label adapted from academic work that highlights the share of money coming from the top contributors. “We have all the campaign finance transactions that includes all the contributions…
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