Library: Elections & Voting: United States

Fact Checking & Issues

FactCheck.org
A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
PolitiFact
A nonpartisan fact-checking website to sort out the truth in American politics. Owned by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalists.
Fact Checker
Regular column of the Washington Post, which aims to “truth squad the statements of political figures."
The Center for Public Integrity - Politics
One of the country's oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organizations.
Snopes
An independent, fact-checking and investigative reporting publication.

Polls conducted by respected research organizations.

Open States - Wisconsin
Find your legislators, review their votes, search upcoming legislation, and track bill progress. From the Sunlight Foundation.
OpenSecrets.org
This site tracks "the influence of money on U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives." From the Center for Responsive Politics (nonpartisan, independent, and nonprofit).
MapLight
A nonpartisan research organization that reveals money’s influence on politics.
Sunlight Foundation
A national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent.