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    Thanks & sources

    We stand on other people’s work

    Salt Tab is evidence-first, so it’s only as trustworthy as the sources behind it. Every organization, public body, and open-source project we rely on is named here and linked to its own site — so you can check the origin of anything we publish, and so credit goes where it’s due.

    A tag on each entry says honestly whether it’s powering the site today, being connected now, or a foundation we’re built on. Data feeds never publish on their own — every record is reviewed by a person first.

    Official government records

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    Authoritative primary sources — the public bodies whose records are the ground truth Salt Tab cites.

    Granicus LegistarConnecting real data

    Public agenda, minutes, and meeting feeds for local councils and boards, via the Legistar Web API.

    granicus.com ↗
    Alabama Secretary of StateConnecting real data

    Official candidate qualifying lists, elections, and business/records data for Alabama.

    sos.alabama.gov ↗
    Tennessee Secretary of StateConnecting real data

    Official candidate lists and elections information for Tennessee.

    sos.tn.gov ↗
    Mississippi Secretary of StateConnecting real data

    Official candidate qualifying lists and elections information for Mississippi.

    sos.ms.gov ↗

    Open civic data & nonpartisan partners

    3

    Organizations that open up legislative and candidate information so it can be cited and compared fairly.

    Open States (Plural Policy)Connecting real data

    Bills, votes, and legislator rosters for all 50 state legislatures — used to enrich incumbents’ records.

    openstates.org ↗
    League of Women Voters — VOTE411Connecting real data

    Nonpartisan candidate questionnaires: candidates’ own answers on issues, a citable source for comparisons.

    vote411.org ↗
    U.S. Census BureauPowering the site now

    TIGER/cartographic boundaries and place data behind the state, county, and city map layers.

    census.gov ↗

    Open-source software & data

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    Free and open projects that make the map, search, and the site itself possible. Thank you to their maintainers.

    us-atlasBuilt on their work

    Pre-built TopoJSON of U.S. states and counties, rendered as the real geographic map.

    github.com ↗
    all-the-citiesBuilt on their work

    Open dataset of world cities used to make towns and cities searchable on the map.

    npmjs.com ↗
    D3 (d3-geo)Built on their work

    Albers-USA projection and geographic path generation for the map.

    d3js.org ↗
    TopoJSONBuilt on their work

    Decoding compact TopoJSON boundaries into map geometry in the browser.

    github.com ↗
    Next.jsBuilt on their work

    The React framework the whole site runs on.

    nextjs.org ↗
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