State Navigate: Data Access and Transparency by Chaz Nuttycombe
"Discover the work of State Navigate presented by Chaz Nuttycombe, focusing on data access, transparency, news aggregation, elections forecasting, and campaign finance in state legislatures. Learn about their initiatives and dedication to providing insights into state governance."
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State Navigate: Data Access and Transparency Presented by Chaz Nuttycombe
Who am I? Why am I here? - Admiral James Stockdale, 1992
About me I ve predicted state legislative elections across the country since 2017. In Virginia, here s my record. 2017: 96/100 HoD 2019: 99/100 HoD, 38/40 Senate 2021: 96/100 HoD 2023: 100/100 HoD, 40/40 Senate In March 2020, I started the only website in the country that forecasts state legislative elections, CNalysis CNalysis s successor is State Navigate, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to all aspects of data in state legislatures.
State Navigates Work News Elections Short-Term: Aggregating news from various sources on state legislatures Long-Term: Hiring State House reporters in states where they re sorely needed Estimate the ideological leanings of individual news sources for state governance Short-Term: Forecasting state legislative elections Calculating & displaying election data in state legislative districts Conducting public horse-race and issue polling for state legislatures Collect candidate names, photos, and campaign websites Long-Term: Aggregate polls on state governance
State Navigates Work Campaign Finance Legislature Short-Term: Gather and display candidate, committee, vendor, and donor campaign finance information Long-Term: Determine the measured effect of campaign finance spending on the state legislative level in each state after controlling for partisanship and incumbency Short-Term: Building a comprehensive bill, legislative roll call, and legislator database Calculate the ideology of legislators and determine what their likelihood was of voting yay/nay on each roll call vote after it s been taken Long-Term: Build a tool to allow users to calculate and create their own scorecards for legislators
Why state legislatures? Congress gets plenty of attention and resources in data transparency. This should come as no surprise given the centralization of Washington. Each state has their own processes and intricacies, for better or worse. Data access is largely correlated with the level of corruption in state government. MN is seen as the gold standard, whereas HI is seen as more of a regime than a government. Our mission is to promote data transparency on the state legislative level, which the public can use to keep state government accountable.
Where do we get our data? State Government: Election results, candidate lists Existing 501(c)(3) nonprofits and other organizations (VoteSmart, OpenStates/Plural Policy, LegiScan): candidate photos/social media/websites, bill data
South Carolina: Pre-Alpha! https://statenavigate.org/south-carolina https://projects.statenavigate.com/25- 26/states/sc/district_test_2_0.html?id=sldl:15#sec2 https://statenavigate.org/news-south-carolina/
