Public claims need receipts
Votes, bills, filings, and direct statements should be linked so users can inspect the underlying record.
Source-backed evidence policy
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Conservative policy brief
Transparency / Verification
How complete, documented, and correction-ready a candidate record is.
Publication standard
Editorial analysis is labeled. Candidate scores stay hidden until there is enough source-linked evidence to publish.
Read the scoring methodologyWhat this page measures
This issue tracks whether a candidate record is identity-verified, ballot-verified, questionnaire-backed, document-supported, correction-ready, and transparent enough for voters to inspect the evidence behind scores.
The policy lens
The conservative case
Editorial analysisPublic officials exercise delegated power and spend public money, so voters need records they can inspect and challenge. Conservative accountability favors open government, traceable claims, financial disclosure, documented corrections, and clear limits on unsupported conclusions.
Confidence must match coverage
Sparse or stale evidence should produce a lower confidence label rather than false precision.
RFO public score gate
Corrections strengthen the record
Candidates and users need a documented path to submit evidence and challenge errors.
RFO corrections process
Evidence checklist
What to watch in the public record
CHECK 01
Financial disclosure completeness and timeliness
CHECK 02
Responses to documented correction requests
CHECK 03
Support for public-records and government-transparency laws
CHECK 04
Whether an officeholder corrects demonstrably inaccurate claims
Published candidate records
Candidate alignment
Rankings appear only when a score has enough source-linked evidence and confidence to publish.
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No candidate is ranked here until there is enough source-linked evidence to publish a score for transparency / verification. We would rather show nothing than a score we can't stand behind — so use the steps below to research this issue yourself.
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Questions to ask candidatesUse the evidence checklist to press candidates on the record, not the rhetoric.Open Records to inspectLook up who represents you and open their votes, bills, and statements.Build my guide Compare candidates on this issuePut two records side by side and see who backs it up with evidence.Compare
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