About

Transparency Corps is a project of the Sunlight Foundation. Our work is committed to helping citizens, bloggers and journalists be their own government watchdogs, by improving access to existing information, digitizing new information, and by creating new tools and Web sites to enable all of us to collaborate in fostering greater transparency.

Transparency Corps allows anyone anywhere to have a positive impact on making our government more transparent by aggregating small actions that require human intelligence but not specialized political knowledge.

TransparencyCorps is open source software, licensed under the MIT Open Source license. You can see the source code for it on the SunlightLabs GitHub account, under TCorps.

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  • How Many Votes?

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    Help Sunlight Labs gather the numbers on how well our nation's legislators did in their last elections. The answers are scattered over 50 different state websites, so we'll point you to the right one and let you dig it up.

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  • Find Your State Officials on Twitter

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    Use your Internet search-fu skills to track down who among your state officials is on Twitter, and what their usernames are. Don't know who your state officials are? No problem, you tell us your zip code, and we'll tell you who to look for.

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