Paper Trail Politics Correction page My Area

Find an error?

Help us make the public record clearer.

If something looks wrong, incomplete, outdated, or connected to the wrong person, place, election, or organization, we want to know. Corrections are a normal and necessary part of working with public records.

What to include

Three details help us investigate.

A useful correction report identifies the exact page, explains the possible problem, and points to the strongest available source. You do not need to resolve the issue before bringing it to our attention.

Where you found it

Include the page address and the name of the election, person, entity, location, or record involved.

What looks wrong

Identify the specific name, number, date, relationship, boundary, label, or statement that may need review.

What supports the change

Share an official document, agency page, public dataset, filing, map, or other source that helps us verify the correction.

Correction process

We trace the report back to the record.

We keep intake, source review, correction, and documentation as distinct steps. This makes it easier to explain what changed and why.

01 Receive

Record the affected page, the possible issue, and any supporting material.

02 Verify

Compare the report with original records and other reliable sources.

03 Correct

Update the page, record, or relationship when the evidence supports a change.

04 Document

Preserve the source, timing, and reason for a material correction.

Correction intake

A direct submission form is in development.

We are preparing a sitewide correction form and direct correction links for data pages. Until that intake channel opens, keep the page address and supporting source handy. This page will explain how to submit them as soon as the process is available.

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