How post labels work

Labels describe the kind of support a sentence has. They do not say a value is good or bad, and they are never a label on a person.

Tap a label to see why it was chosen. A rewrite in the composer is optional. The words you leave in the box can always be posted.

To appeal a label, write to the address on your account page and name the post. A different person reviews the record. The appeal does not change the author’s words.

How we compare votes

Draft: needs neutral human review. Scores for members of Congress use this draft until that review is done. A party name is a label, not a score.

Each vote is an official House or Senate record. A yes is mapped onto one quiz topic, with a written reason, and debatable mappings are flagged. The sponsor is the sponsor of record on the bill’s Congress.gov page. A vote counts as crossing parties when each major party cast at least 10 yes votes. A member who was not in office for a vote is left out of that vote. The percent stays hidden until the quiz has enough answers. A topic you have not answered is left out.

The check that a middle-of-the-road set of answers does not lean toward one party is written up with the vote list in this app. This page is the short version.

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