https://github.com/ProgressiveMass/legislator-scorecard

🗳️ Explore MA state representatives' voting records
https://github.com/ProgressiveMass/legislator-scorecard

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🗳️ Explore MA state representatives' voting records

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ProgressiveMass/legislator-scorecard
• Owner: ProgressiveMass
• Created: 2017-03-27T04:56:24.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-22T16:07:03.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T13:27:05.396Z (26 days ago)
• Topics: gatsbyjs, government-data, legislation
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://scorecard.progressivemass.com/
• Size: 22.8 MB
• Stars: 20
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 18
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Progressive Massachusetts Legislator Scorecard

Taking somewhat dry legislator information from various spreadsheets administered by [Progressive Massachusetts](https://www.progressivemass.com/) and turning it into a ...slightly less dry interactive app.

[**Check out the scorecard app here**](http://scorecard.progressivemass.com)

## Technical details

The gatsbyjs statically-generated site [uses Google Sheets as a lightweight CMS](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17SfLTsqLaoBG8WE5vKHmBY_J6Iz1IFKThm_wAqsHZdg) and also sources additional legislator data from the [Open States API](https://docs.openstates.org/en/latest/api/v2/).

Hosted on Google Firebase, with a Firebase serverless function for fetching geolocation data, and automated deployments using Github actions.

Site created by [@aholachek](https://github.com/aholachek) and currently administered by [@dscush](https://github.com/dscush).

![screenshot of the scorecard](./screenshot.png)

## Contributing

You can build the site locally by simply running `yarn start` after cloning the repo. To build the data, you'll need to copy `.env.template` to `.env` and then add your own Google API key (it must be Google Sheets enabled) and an Open States API key. You should then be able to run the `yarn build-data` command to fetch legislator data.