We are a small group of Cambridge residents committed to learning more about local politics and sharing our knowledge with other Cambridge residents. This site was born out of discussions with many area friends, many of whom were trying to get more engaged after the 2016 election.
We welcome your comments and ideas - but most of all, we hope you vote in every one of your local elections!
— Kelsey Harris, 2017-07-04 (updated 2025-09-29)2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025
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The list of people we wish to thank is very long, and some prefer to remain off of the public internet. Suffice to say: thank you to everyone from life-long friends and total strangers who commented and encouraged. This site would not be the same without you!
Special Thanks to the crew at CCTV for opening their studios - not only to us, in 2017, but to many different groups throughout the years.
As far as we know, we're not required to disclose our finances, but in the spirit of transparency here is a brief rundown!
So far, all costs have been paid by Kelsey Harris. She requests, if you wish to show monetary support, you subscribe to local media, as this site would not be possible without it.
For the most part, the data on this site is entered by us and not by you, the user.
The exception is the ranking tool, which requires your input to be a useful tool at all.
If you're not logged into the site, we store your data in our database but associated with an anonymous id. We aren't collecting and storing other information: just the id, notes, and ranking.
If you log into the site, we also store your notes and rankings in our database, associated with your account. We will not share the raw data with campaigns, advertisers (we have none), press, the general public, etc. We may do some post-election analysis using your data (for example, "how well or poorly did user rankings reflect the rankings in the election"?) and publish the results.
You may share and save your data however you like. In fact, because we plan on deleting or compressing much of the user data between each election cycle, we encourage you to download it if you'd like a record for longer than that!
We've left off endorsements for groups that have not existed for more than a year; such groups often vanish between elections, and it's hard to confirm if their endorsements matter to voters.
That said, we're very inclusive of questionnaires, under the idea that more information directly from candidates can only help differentiate them all.