Remove the Barriers to Finding Context

Remove the Barriers to Finding Context

Posted on Jun. 16, 2022

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Remove the Barriers to Finding Context

The public often discovers new insight into a civic issue by reading a news story. The web is particularly adapted to allowing the reader to dig deeper by clicking a link and diving into more detailed documentation. Thus, the online court record platform should make filings freely available. This would allow a citizen, scholar, blogger, or other journalist to read a news story about a court case, click the link in an article, and instantly begin exploring the source documents upon which the story was built. This will also provide a wisdom of the crowds effect to oversee the quality of the news story itself. “Crowd-checking” to provide basic fact-checking and bias detection.

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William Senning

William Senning

Director of Elections, Vermont Secretary of State

The Vermont Elections Division has very high praise for the election results database developed for Vermont by Civera. It has furthered the mission of our office by providing the public with quick, easy, and comprehensive access to the results of Vermont elections, past and present.

Researchers, media, and most importantly interested Vermonters have begun to rely on the archive as an invaluable resource for detailed information about Vermont election results.

In the past, Elections Division staff had to search through dozens of files and hundreds of documents each time a request for past election data was received. Now, most of the requests received by staff can be satisfied by simply directing the requestor to the archive. With source documents available directly from the site, users are able to access the primary source information to validate the results on the site.

Clay Helms

Deputy Chief Of Staff and Director of Elections, Alabama Secretary of State

ElectionStats is a dynamic resource to organize and systemize election results in a manner that makes the data visible and useful to all. They accept historic election files and archived data, as well as data from many formats to make it uniform and accessible. We are very impressed with the platform.

Foster C. Cronyn

Foster C. Cronyn

Deputy Secretary of State of Idaho

Let me just start out by saying Idaho loves Civera!

Why? Because in Idaho, the transparency of campaign financials is one of the key components of election integrity and our customers often complained about how hard it was to find information in our old system. After speaking with Civera, Adam’s team designed and built Sunshine™, a first of a kind product that provides members of the press, research professionals and Idaho voters with the ability to easily discover the financials of candidates, including campaign spending, loans and donations – and reporting is a breeze!

While Civera created Sunshine™, Adam’s team also designed a database of Idaho‘s historical election results while crafting an elegant front-end we named Canvass™. Since implementing Canvass™ in January, our office has received praise from professionals, students, and social scientists about how easy it is to navigate.

I’ve worked with software development companies throughout my 30-year career, and I have never come across anyone better than Civera at listening to my requirements and turning them into such forward thinking, well-designed tools. The Civera team certainly exceeded my expectations in every way, and I wouldn’t hesitate to work with them again on any IT project.

Denise Merrill

Secretary of the State of Connecticut

Connecticut citizens, researchers, professors, and media deserve access to the best historical data that our state can provide. Electionhistory.ct.gov will provide that data, from the election of George Washington to today. A strong and healthy civic community can only exist where voters have free access to all the information that they need to make informed decisions, and I am proud to ensure that they will have that access to our shared historical election results.

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