Democracy Works
Democracy Works is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) civic technology nonprofit, founded in 2010, that provides Americans with the guidance they need to vote in every election. Its Elections API delivers comprehensive federal, state, county and municipal election data — dates, deadlines, registration and voting methods, contests, candidates, ballot measures, endorsements and polling locations — keyed to Open Civic Data IDs and used by search, social and AI platforms including TikTok, Meta, Perplexity and Anthropic. It also runs TurboVote and co-runs the Voting Information Project with 40+ states.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Democracy Works the way a machine reads it — 23 machine-readable artifacts across 3 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Democracy Works scores 56.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 34/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Democracy Works
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Democracy Works. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Democracy Works Authorities API
The Authorities API from Democracy Works — 3 operation(s) for authorities.
Democracy Works Elections API
The Elections API from Democracy Works — 1 operation(s) for elections.
Democracy Works Exports API
The Exports API from Democracy Works — 1 operation(s) for exports.
Democracy Works Ballot Measures API
The Ballot Measures API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single ballot measure by id, with its ballot question, summary, yes/no framing, topics, status and endors...
Democracy Works Candidates API
The Candidates API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single candidate by id, with party affiliation, incumbency, write-in status, running mate, ranked-choice round...
Democracy Works Contests API
The Contests API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single contest by id, with its candidate list, seats up for election, ranked-choice rules, partisan-primary rule...
Democracy Works Endorsements API
The Endorsements API from Democracy Works — 2 operations: one endorsement by id, and endorsements in bulk for a candidate id or a ballot-measure id. Every endorsement carries th...
Democracy Works Voting Locations API
The Voting Locations API from Democracy Works — 1 operation returning polling places, early-voting sites and ballot drop boxes for a street address, with hours, open/close dates...
Democracy Works Elections API v1 (legacy)
The first generation of the Democracy Works Elections API — 3 operations for upcoming elections and state election authorities. Still served at the unversioned base path and sti...
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Open Collections 4
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONDemocracy Works Authorities API
OPEN COLLECTIONDemocracy Works Elections API
OPEN COLLECTIONDemocracy Works Exports API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Democracy Works Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Democracy Works Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Democracy Works Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Democracy Works API Rules
SPECTRALDemocracy Works API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Democracy Works — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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