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Traffic and performance measurement

We use Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights to understand which pages help people and where loading is slow. We measure page views, search submissions, whether a lookup returned results, and categories of links opened. We also measure whether the API record viewer loaded records, returned an empty result, or failed, grouped by broad record type. Custom action properties contain tool categories, not entered searches, names, addresses, coordinates, record IDs, or the contents of results.

We remove query strings and fragments from analytics URLs. Authentication, claim, administration, and hosted community-project routes are excluded. These analytics do not use advertising cookies; Vercel describes its daily, non-persistent visitor identifier in its privacy documentation.

Your choice on this browser

We honor Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control for these analytics. You can also opt out below. This choice is saved on this browser only; it is useful for excluding your own development and testing visits.

Address lookups and private workspaces

An address lookup requires sending your entry to the lookup service and its disclosed geocoding providers. Depending on the entry, these may include the U.S. Census Bureau, OpenStreetMap, and Zippopotam. The lookup screen explains its source and precision. Entries are not added to our public-record database, but browser history and normal hosting or service logs can retain requests.

Private ballot notes and selections stored by the workspace remain on your device. Sending a correction, profile claim, subscription, or project is a separate, explicit submission; review its form before sending personal information.

Questions or corrections

Contact hello@election.org. See our public-record methodology for source and accuracy limits.

Third-party prediction-market widgets

Selected midterm pages embed Polymarket’s own market charts. When a widget loads, your browser connects directly to Polymarket, which receives normal connection information such as your IP address and browser details. Election.org does not send address lookups, private ballot notes, or search entries to these widgets. We suppress the referring page URL and disable the widget’s trading buttons.

Our Election.org analytics opt-out does not control third-party widgets. Browser privacy tools may block them; direct source links remain available. Review Polymarket’s privacy policy for its own data handling.

Feedback suggestions and voting

Feature suggestions are stored privately in Vercel Blob until an Election.org moderator approves publication. The title, description and category of an approved suggestion become public; review notes remain private. This form does not ask for a name or email address, create an account, subscribe you to a newsletter, or send your suggestion to an AI provider.

We retain suggestions and review decisions to handle moderation and disputes. Please do not submit private information. Contact us with your submission reference to request removal of personal information. Abuse controls use a salted hash of the connection address; the voting cookie prevents repeat votes in the same browser. Normal hosting logs can also contain request information.