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What Vote Smart is
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Official site: Vote Smart
What it is
Vote Smart (formerly Project Vote Smart) keeps a public biographical file: votes, issue positions, interest-group scores, speeches, and campaign-finance notes.
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How ratings workLookup
Issue tests. Thinner encyclopedia than Ballotpedia.
Money
Finance notes. Behind OpenSecrets on donors.
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Last updated September 23, 2026