Privacy

VotedBy collects nothing about you. There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking scripts, and VotedBy sets no cookies of its own. (Our delivery provider may set a security cookie if it needs to check for abuse.)

Your address

When you look up your representatives, your address goes from your browser to our edge service and straight on to the U.S. Census Bureau, which tells us your congressional district. If the Census service doesn't answer our edge service, the same request is sent once more through our own server at Amazon Web Services, which passes it straight on to the Census Bureau. We don't save, log or cache the address anywhere, and it never appears in a page address (URL).

If you enter only a ZIP code, nothing is sent anywhere: your browser downloads VotedBy's small public list for ZIP codes starting with the same three digits and looks it up itself. A ZIP code can span several districts; when it does, VotedBy shows them all.

What stays in your browser

Your district code (for example WA-06), so your members can follow you from page to page, and your light or dark choice. Both are kept only in your own browser (local storage). Your browser uses the district code to load that district's public list of members; nothing ties it to you. Clear your browser data to remove them.

Embedded tiles

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Searches

Search terms are answered from public records and are not logged by VotedBy. Results may be cached for about a minute so repeated searches load faster.

Our providers

The site is delivered by Cloudflare, which processes requests (including IP addresses) to deliver pages and block abuse, under its own privacy policy. Search runs on our server at Amazon Web Services.

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