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Election integrity

Verify voter registration, candidates, and campaign finance

TruthMark does notscore politicians or aggregate campaign-finance data. We direct you to your state's authoritative election authority — the office that runs your elections — and to the federal regulators that handle federal campaign finance, voting rights, and election security. Why we do it this way →

State-anchored, federal-supplemented. U.S. election administration is federated — your state's chief elections officer (Secretary of State, Lt. Governor, or Board of Elections, depending on the state) is authoritative. The federal layer (FEC, EAC, CISA, DOJ) supplements but does not replace state authority. No editorial scoring of politicians; no “Child-First Score.” Where editorial scorecards belong →

Federal cross-reference

Federal election authorities

Federal agencies handle federal-level campaign finance (FEC), voting rights enforcement (DOJ), election-system standards (EAC), and election infrastructure cybersecurity (CISA). They do NOT run elections — that's a state responsibility.

  • Federal Election Commission (FEC)

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    Federal Election Commission

    The FEC administers and enforces federal campaign-finance law. The FEC's data portal hosts every federal candidate, committee, PAC, and independent expenditure since 1979 — donations, disbursements, and electronic filings updated in near-real time. The FEC does NOT run elections; it regulates federal campaign money only.

  • U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)

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    U.S. Election Assistance Commission

    Independent bipartisan commission established by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA, 2002). Develops voluntary voting-system guidelines (VVSG), certifies voting systems, distributes HAVA grants to states, and produces the biennial Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS). Does NOT run elections — that's a state responsibility.

  • CISA — Election Security (#Protect2024 / Protect Our Democracy)

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    U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

    CISA is the federal lead for election infrastructure cybersecurity. Coordinates with state and local election officials on threat intelligence, phishing defense, and voting-system security. Designated election infrastructure as 'critical infrastructure' under DHS in 2017.

  • DOJ Civil Rights Division — Voting Section

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    U.S. Department of Justice — Civil Rights Division

    Federal enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, and other federal voting-rights statutes. Brings DOJ litigation against jurisdictions that violate these laws.

  • DOJ Public Integrity Section — Election Crimes Branch

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    U.S. Department of Justice — Criminal Division

    Federal prosecution of election-fraud crimes — vote buying, ballot stuffing, multiple voting, voter intimidation, and false-statements offenses. Each U.S. Attorney's Office has a designated District Election Officer (DEO) who reports to PIN.

  • FBI — Election Crimes Reporting

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    Federal Bureau of Investigation

    Federal investigative authority for election-fraud, voter suppression, and campaign-finance crimes. Reports route through local FBI field offices or tips.fbi.gov. The FBI is NOT the first responder for routine voting issues — those go to state and local elections officials.

  • FEC Campaign Finance Data Explorer

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    Federal Election Commission

    Interactive search of every federal-level campaign-finance filing since 1979. Search by candidate, committee, donor, or industry. The OpenFEC API (api.open.fec.gov) is the programmatic equivalent — free, unlimited for registered users.

  • Library of Congress — Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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    Library of Congress

    Authoritative historical record of every person who has ever served in the U.S. Congress (1774–present) — biography, terms served, committee assignments, party affiliation. The official congressional historical reference.

  • USA.gov — Find Your Elected Officials

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    U.S. General Services Administration

    Federal government's canonical 'who represents me' starting point. Hands off to USPS for ZIP→district lookup and links out to official congressional / state-legislator finders. TruthMark deep-links here rather than building its own address-to-officials aggregator.

Integrated state portals

States with fuller TruthMark integration (coverage notes per sub-resource). For all 50 states + DC + territories, see the full directory.

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TruthMark does not score politicians

Editorial scoring (e.g. “Child-First Score”) is a different product category. TruthMark's job is to direct you to the authoritative source; rating politicians is the job of advocacy organizations who own their methodology publicly. The scorecards page lists five third-party scorecards a voter might consult — First Focus Campaign for Children, CDF Action Council, Vote Smart, FollowTheMoney, Ballotpedia — with notes on each one's framing.

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Data via state Secretaries of State (or equivalent), state ethics / campaign-finance commissions, FEC, EAC, CISA, and DOJ Civil Rights Division. Editorial scorecards are listed separately for context; TruthMark does not author one.

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