WashingtonVotes.org: The Best Election Resource for Voters

During this election season, voters can find the comprehensive voting record of their state legislators on WashingtonVotes.org, a free, non-partisan legislative website.

Since WashingtonVotes.org shows every vote each legislator made during the past six legislative sessions, it is a great tool for voters as they prepare to vote in next week's primary election. It provides plain-English summaries of the bills legislators introduced and explains the outcome of each bill's vote.

This information is completely non-partisan and free to the user. Searches are highly customizable and can focus on legislators, keyword, bill number, and 50 subject categories. Users can learn the voting record of any senator or representative and read plain-English summaries of the bills that a legislator has introduced. They can also easily find the latest bills on a subject and then follow the progress of those bills.

WashingtonVotes.org also offers missed vote reports. Users can hold their legislators accountable by comparing how many votes a public official missed during the last two legislative sessions.

The database contains descriptions of every state legislative action in the past six years. WashingtonVotes.org has become the best resource of information for reporters, legislators and their staffs, local officials, students, and taxpayers. Citizens are using it as a "truth meter" to judge the claims of candidates and posting their thoughts about bills in the citizen's comment area. State agencies, members of the local government, schools and citizen's groups use the site to monitor bills during fast-moving sessions. University and college faculty and students go to the website to learn and teach about the legislative process. Reporters and lobbyists who cover state government regularly rely on WashingtonVotes.org for quick access to voting record information.

WashingtonVotes.org is a free public service of the Washington Policy Center, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institute. Its purpose is to inform citizens, community leaders, business people, media and public officials about legislation that affects their families, schools, jobs and communities. The site empowers citizens to take a more active part in the democratic process, and hold their elected representatives accountable.