Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026 · times ET
- Fixed: the 15th Judicial Circuit (Illinois) vacancy of Judge Hauser is now shown only to Stephenson County voters, as on the county's ballot; it had been shown across the whole circuit.
- New: "By the numbers" (/numbers) counts the Nov 3 ballot from our data, recounted every time it updates: uncontested races, ballot questions by topic, $59.7 billion in local bonds, judges facing retention votes and more, with a box on every state page.
- Researched profiles for 31 more candidates, including Michigan Senate and House, New Hampshire House, North Carolina soil and water, New York judges and Ohio House races
- Sheriff races now show whether the county sheriff's office has an immigration enforcement (287(g)) agreement with ICE, which kind and since when, from ICE's official list of participating agencies.
- Researched profiles for 32 more candidates across Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Minnesota, Maryland and other states
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for 71 more of the most-visited local questions, including Arizona school overrides, Baltimore County's charter questions and more Florida city and county measures
- New York: town, village and county races in 20 more counties, including Oswego, Steuben, Otsego, Herkimer, Allegany, Franklin and Greene
- Wisconsin: sheriff, clerk of circuit court and coroner races in 22 more counties (64 of 72 now)
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for 54 more of the most-visited local ballot questions across 10 states
- Fixed: New York Mills (MN) school bond Question 2 is "not to exceed $2,590,000," as on the district's sample ballot; we had $2,600,000 from the state's question file.
- Illinois: county board, clerk, treasurer, sheriff and other county races in 49 more counties, including Jackson (Carbondale), Coles, Knox, Henry, Franklin, Jefferson, Effingham and Jo Daviess
- Kansas: county commission, county office, township and city races in 22 more counties, including Sumner, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson and Brown
- Missouri: county commissioner and county office races in 18 more counties, including Jasper (Joplin), Cass, Cape Girardeau, Platte, Taney and Lincoln
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for 49 more of the most-visited local questions in Florida, Washington, Ohio, Arizona and Louisiana
- Texas: county and local races in 33 more counties, including Hardin, Washington, Brown, Gillespie, Tyler, Uvalde, Val Verde, Jim Wells and Burnet (110 counties now)
- Added the U.S. territories that vote Nov 3: Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa, with every race on their ballots, from Delegate to Congress and governor to the legislature and local boards. (Puerto Rico's next general election is in 2028.)
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for 35 more of the most-visited Florida local questions, including Leon County's human dignity and consolidation questions, Fort Lauderdale's charter questions, Miami-Dade County Question 1 and several school levies
- "What this office does" now covers about 98% of local races, adding township trustees and supervisors, town clerks, highway superintendents, community colleges, utility and transit boards, and DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commissions.
- Fixed: circuit court clerks and circuit prosecutors were described as judges, and some city and township races got the wrong description because of words inside place names (like "Porter" or "Howard").
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for 30 big local measures in Ohio, Michigan, Arizona and Colorado, including Cuyahoga County, Columbus, Cincinnati schools, Ann Arbor, Denver, Pima County and Mesa
- Georgia: local races now in all 154 counties that have them on the Nov 3 ballot, with 87 more counties added (county commission, school board, coroner, DA, soil and water, city and special elections)
- Researched profiles for 67 more of the most-visited candidates outside Florida, including Arizona legislative races, California city councils and school boards, and Minnesota appeals judges
- Michigan: school board, city, village, township, library, community college and road commission races in 25 more counties, including Washtenaw, Ottawa, Muskegon, St. Clair, Jackson, Monroe, Calhoun and Eaton
- Fixed: Sarasota's at-large City Commission race now lists the three candidates who advanced in August (Ahearn-Koch, Entler, Harshman) and shows only to city voters.
- Fixed: Jackson County School Board District 5 is back on the ballot as a Daniels vs. Michael "MJ" Jackson runoff, and Putnam County Commission District 4 no longer lists a candidate who lost the August primary.
- Nevada: county, city, school board, judicial and district races now in all 17 counties, from the state's certified general-election candidate list
- Utah: county commission, clerk, attorney, sheriff and other county races in 21 more counties, including Cache, Box Elder, Iron, Summit and Wasatch
- Fixed: Washoe County's sheriff and school trustee Districts B and C were settled in the June primary and are no longer listed for Nov 3.
- Oregon: county, city, soil and water and utility district races in 19 more counties (including Lincoln, Clatsop, Tillamook, Malheur, Union and Baker), plus Clackamas County's clerk, sheriff, cities and soil and water seats
- Fixed: West Multnomah Soil and Water District races now also appear for voters in the Washington County part of the district.
- Kansas: county commission, clerk, treasurer, attorney and city races in 22 more counties, including Shawnee, Leavenworth, McPherson, Cowley, Barton and Miami
- Oklahoma: contested district judge, city council, mayor and fire district races in 15 counties, including Tulsa, Bartlesville, Lawton, El Reno and Yukon
- Maine: city council, mayor, school board and county races now on the ballot lookup in 11 counties, including Portland, Lewiston, Bangor, Augusta and Waterville
- New Hampshire: county commissioner, sheriff, county attorney and city races in 4 more counties (Rockingham, Belknap, Sullivan, Coos)
- Colorado: county commissioner, clerk, treasurer, assessor, sheriff, coroner and town races in 41 more counties, including Arapahoe, Eagle, Garfield, Summit, La Plata, Montrose, Fremont and Teller
- Researched profiles for 51 more of the most-visited Florida local candidates, including Seminole County Judge Group 6, Lake County Commission District 4 and Anastasia Mosquito Control.
- Fixed: Sanford's mayor race was decided in the Aug 18 primary (Christina Hollerbach won with 51.3%), so it is no longer listed for Nov 3.
- New Jersey: county commissioner, municipal council, mayor, school board and fire district races in 5 more counties: Gloucester, Sussex, Cumberland, Salem and Hunterdon
- Researched profiles for 46 more of the most-visited Florida local candidates (fire, drainage, CDD, soil and water and county races), from campaign sites, newspaper Q&As and district board records.
- Fixed: Pasco County School Board District 3 showed five candidates; the Nov 3 runoff is Matt Geiger vs. Mollyana Ward.
- "What this office does" now explains 30 more local offices, from Kentucky magistrates and constables to coroners, county treasurers, registers of deeds and village trustees, covering about 4,600 more races.
- Fixed: Kentucky's county judge/executive and Arkansas justices of the peace were described as courtroom judges; both are county executive or legislative offices.
- Ballot questions added for Denver (2H–2K, Initiated Ordinance 311, DPS 4A), El Paso County school districts (Ysleta, Socorro, Tornillo) and Oklahoma County's proposed jail and mental-health sales tax
- Researched profiles for 25 more of the most-visited candidates outside Florida, including Oregon soil and water, Arizona legislative and California special-district races
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for 30 big Texas and Washington measures, including Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin propositions, Cy-Fair and Northside ISD bonds, and Seattle, Tacoma, Clark and Snohomish County measures
- Iowa: county, township, soil and water, hospital and judicial retention races in 15 more counties, including Story, Linn, Pottawattamie, Warren and Muscatine
- Missouri: county offices and associate circuit judges in 14 more counties, including St. Charles, Jefferson, Christian and Cole
- Fixed: Missouri's 23rd Circuit Judge, Division 2 (Jefferson County) now shows Jeffrey Coleman, the Republican on the county's Nov 3 ballot; we had the name from the state's August certification, Edward L. Page.
- Wisconsin: sheriff, clerk of circuit court and coroner races in 26 more counties, including Kenosha, Racine, Marathon, Outagamie, Portage, Wood and Ozaukee
- Every page now notes that SpectrumVote is always a work in progress, with new races, candidates and research added daily; candidate pages we haven't researched yet say so and invite sources.
- New York: town, village, city and county races in 16 more counties, including Oneida, Broome, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Chautauqua, Rensselaer, Schenectady and Tompkins, plus the 4th Judicial District Supreme Court race
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for California's 30 biggest local measures, including San Francisco Props A–J, Los Angeles city and county measures, San Diego, Oakland, Fresno and Sacramento
- Texas: county judge, commissioners court, district and county courts, JPs, constables and city and school races in 44 more counties, including Hunt, Henderson, Caldwell, Waller, Potter, Kerr, Grayson and the Corpus Christi, San Marcos and College Station city races
- Ohio: commissioner, auditor, judge and other county races in 11 more counties, including Wayne, Hancock, Union, Sandusky and Ottawa
- Illinois: county board, clerk, sheriff, treasurer and other county races in 16 more counties, including Madison, St. Clair, Winnebago, Sangamon, McLean, Rock Island and DeKalb
- Appellate judges up for retention: California's 62 Court of Appeal justices, plus Arizona (14), Oklahoma (9), Indiana and Maryland, each on the ballots of the counties that vote on them.
- What's new now shows the time of each change (Eastern), newest first within each day, back to launch.
- Georgia: local races for 34 more counties, including Bulloch, Troup, Camden, Effingham, Oconee, Liberty, Bryan, Thomas, Tift and Habersham
- Background (who put it on the ballot, the vote, and why) for 29 more Florida local questions, including Hillsborough's elected superintendent and districts, St. Petersburg's water bonds, and the Broward, Orange, Duval, Pasco, Lake and Walton school levies
- "Ballots cast so far" now on the North Carolina, South Carolina and Colorado pages, plus Clark County, Nevada and Harris and Travis counties, Texas
- How-to-vote rules now cover every state except Illinois, Georgia and Tennessee (whose election sites block automated access), including 2026 changes such as Kansas and Utah ending postmark grace periods and West Virginia's new photo ID requirement.
- The lookup now shows how to vote in 21 more states (including California, Michigan, Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, Pennsylvania and New York): registration and mail-ballot deadlines, early voting dates, poll hours, ID rules and official lookups, from each state's election office.
- More local races in Oregon (10 counties, including Eugene, Medford, Corvallis and Albany), Wisconsin (sheriff and clerk of court in 11 counties) and Tennessee (Fayette and Sevier).
- More local races in New York (Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and four more counties), New Jersey (Essex and Camden) and Ohio (five counties).
- California candidates for statewide office and the Legislature now show their fundraising and top donors from Cal-Access, and every California proposition lists the committees for and against it with money raised.
- Fixed: 52 minor-party and independent candidates for U.S. House and Senate were missing in 8 states (North Carolina, Utah, Texas, Ohio, Vermont, Arkansas, North Dakota and Nebraska); they're now listed from each state's official ballot.
- Texas ballots now include local races in 11 more counties, including Cameron, Webb (Laredo), Smith (Tyler), Ector (Odessa), Midland and Comal.
- Researched profiles for 79 candidates in the most-visited races in Michigan, Colorado, North Carolina, Arizona and Minnesota.
- Arizona and Nevada ballots now include more county races: Maricopa County's 49 Superior Court judges up for retention, Mohave, Cochise, La Paz, Coconino, Yuma and Greenlee in Arizona, and Reno, Sparks and Washoe County races in Nevada.
- Researched profiles for 34 more California candidates, including every San Jose council race and the Milpitas and Santa Barbara mayoral races.
- California local races now cover 52 of 58 counties, adding Solano, Butte, Marin, Napa, Merced, Shasta, Kern, Ventura and Monterey.
- Researched profiles for 60 candidates in the most-visited races in Illinois, New York, Washington, Texas and Georgia.
- Fixed: Texas House District 97 candidate Beth Llewellyn McLaughlin's name was misspelled.
- Georgia ballots now include county commission, school board and solicitor general races in 15 more counties, including Chatham, Clayton, Henry, Cherokee and Douglas.
- California local races now cover 40 of 58 counties (1,455 races), adding Santa Clara, Riverside, Contra Costa, Placer, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and 22 smaller counties.
- Researched profiles for 44 candidates in California's most-visited local races (water, fire, transit and school boards, Carlsbad mayor), largely in their own words from county voter guides.
- Two new issues on candidate pages and in "My issues": Education & schools, and LGBTQ+ & gender policy. Each side of both is described word for word on How it works.
Ballots
- Colorado: 268 more local races (now 487).
- Kansas: 518 more local races (now 678).
- Maine: local races added — 114 races, 201 candidates.
- Michigan: 810 more local races (now 1,269).
- New Hampshire: 21 more local races (now 55).
- Utah: 189 more local races (now 390).
- AS: statewide races added (18).
- GU: statewide races added (6).
- MP: statewide races added (22).
- VI: statewide races added (10).
- Illinois: 604 more local races (now 802).
- Indiana: 1 more local race (now 3,910).
- Iowa: 367 more local races (now 650).
- Maryland: 1 more local race (now 306).
- Missouri: 299 more local races (now 329).
- Oklahoma: 35 more local races (now 62).
- Arizona: 125 more local races (now 199).
- California: 608 more local races (now 1,635).
- Georgia: 603 more local races (now 730).
- Nevada: 205 more local races (now 298).
- New Jersey: 360 more local races (now 935).
- New York: 1,771 more local races (now 1,990).
- Ohio: 65 more local races (now 138).
- Oregon: 562 more local races (now 684).
- Tennessee: 18 more local races (now 256).
- Texas: 1,314 more local races (now 2,135).
- Wisconsin: 133 more local races (now 144).
Ballot questions
- Colorado: 6 more ballot questions (now 89).
- Oklahoma: 1 more ballot question (now 5).
- Texas: 7 more ballot questions (now 255).
Money
- Illinois: fundraising for 127 more candidates (now 601).
- New York: fundraising for 232 more candidates (now 700).
- California: candidates' fundraising added from official campaign-finance records (184 candidates).
- Federal (FEC) fundraising for 2 more candidates (now 903).
Candidates
- Official social accounts for 98 more candidates (now 2,773).
- Researched profiles for 456 more candidates and judges (now 775).
Polls & turnout
- Florida ballots cast so far: 3,524,961 as of Oct 28.
Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026 · times ET
- Local ballot questions in Louisiana, Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland, South Carolina, Indiana and Alabama now say in plain words what a YES and a NO vote do. Nearly every local question on the site now has a plain-language line in English and Spanish.
- Local ballot questions in Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin now say in plain words what a YES and a NO vote do (532 questions, English and Spanish); advisory questions are labeled as non-binding.
- Local ballot questions in 20 more states (including Idaho, Georgia, Hawaii, Oregon, New Jersey, Tennessee, Missouri, New York and Pennsylvania) now say in plain words what a YES and a NO vote do.
- Local ballot questions in California, Washington and Michigan now say in plain words what a YES and a NO vote do (480 questions, English and Spanish), from the official ballot text only.
- Every statewide ballot measure in the country is now explained: Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, Kansas, Ohio, Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, DC Initiative 86 and Idaho Proposition One complete the set.
- Local ballot questions in Texas, Arizona, Colorado and North Carolina now say in plain words what a YES and a NO vote do (459 questions, English and Spanish), written only from the official ballot text.
- Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota: 13 statewide measures explained, including Missouri Amendment 3 with three arguments from each side in its own words.
- Fixed: South Dakota's "official text" links pointed to a pamphlet the state had removed; they now go to the Secretary of State's ballot-questions page.
- Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Indiana: 13 statewide measures explained, with each side's arguments.
- How it works now shows the AI's instructions word for word: every question it's asked, the answer choices, what it's given and never given, and the cutoffs below which we show nothing.
- Fixed: our About and Fairness pages said the AI "never sees" a candidate's party. It is never told the party, but a candidate's own record (such as their Wikipedia article) can mention it; the pages now say so.
- New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Idaho: 13 statewide measures explained, from each state's official voter guide.
- Fixed: Idaho ballots were missing two questions, Proposition One (Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Act) and the advisory question on a state gun; both are now listed with the official wording, and Idaho's amendment wording was corrected.
- "Report a problem" on every page: tell us what's wrong in one step; every report is read.
- New Corrections page: every error we've found or been told about, and the fix.
- New Fairness report: what the site shows for each party's candidates, computed from the site's own data.
- The donate page shows live totals for this month and since launch.
- New "Who runs this" page: who builds SpectrumVote, why, and how the site keeps anyone's views, including its builder's, from deciding what you see.
- North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Washington and Minnesota: 13 statewide measures explained, from each state's official explanations and voters' pamphlets.
- Louisiana's 10 constitutional amendments and Arkansas' 4 ballot issues explained, from the PAR guide and the University of Arkansas voter guide, with each side's arguments.
- Massachusetts' 9, Rhode Island's 5 and New Hampshire's 1 ballot questions explained, with the official arguments and, for bonds, what borrowing would cost each year.
- Arizona's 8, Georgia's 3 and Michigan's 2 statewide measures explained: today vs. if it passes, how each got on the ballot, and each side's arguments.
- Fixed: Michigan Proposal 26-1 (constitutional convention) is on the ballot automatically every 16 years, not put there by the Legislature; Georgia Amendment 3's resolution number is HR 1243.
- Colorado's 14 measures explained, from the state's nonpartisan Blue Book: today vs. if it passes, tax and refund examples, and the arguments for and against.
- Fixed: Colorado Amendment 87 (graduated income tax) needs a simple majority to pass, not 55%; Proposition NN's YES/NO lines now describe its effect on TABOR refunds.
- California's 14 propositions explained: today vs. if it passes, examples from the Legislative Analyst's figures, and the official arguments for and against, in English and Spanish.
- Florida Amendments 1, 2 and 3 explained: the rule today next to what would change, a worked example, how each got on the ballot, and each side's main arguments, in English and Spanish.
- What's new page (/updates), updated automatically.
- Updated terms of use: reminder emails, donations and share images.
- Official social accounts for 2,675 candidates, from their own campaign sites or Wikidata.
- Federal fundraising for 901 more candidates in 35 states.
- More local races: 11 Texas counties, 14 Georgia counties, 922 Indiana school board, town and city races, and all 75 Arkansas counties.
- A data image for every page, used when you share it.
- Data sources page (/sources), built from the data itself.
- Washington, DC: every Nov 3 race, including all contested ANC seats; the lookup finds your ANC district.
- Fixed: Capital Region Community Development District pages crashed with an error page (a district record with an unnamed board seat broke the page); they load again.
- Florida retention judges: Federalist Society or ACS membership and their own words, where the judge disclosed them.
- Election reminder emails: sign up in any footer; unsubscribe in one click.
- Florida local questions: plain-language YES/NO lines in English and Spanish, committees for and against, and background on why 13 questions are on the ballot.
- Fixed: Kentucky judicial races lost their division numbers; New York vacancy seats showed a heading as a candidate; Alabama's State Board of Education races were missing.
- Candidates' fundraising from state campaign-finance systems in Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama, New York, Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois, Virginia and Washington, DC.
- Governor races show each running mate.
- Fixed: Our Bluesky account posted the same Election Day countdown several times in a row; each countdown now posts once nationally and once for Florida.
- Fixed: Washington's Thurston and Snohomish county races were swapped (the state site's county numbers aren't alphabetical).
- What a tax question would cost: per $100,000 of taxable value or per $100 spent.
- Local races for Tennessee and Alaska.
- Share button on every page.
- Incumbents' last general-election result.
- Researched profiles for local candidates and Florida retention judges.
- Fixed: about 4,700 candidates outside Florida were linked to the wrong state's profile data.
Monday, Oct 26, 2026 · times ET
- Multi-seat races: pick up to the number of seats.
- Measure pages: who put it on the ballot (bill, sponsor, vote), who's for and against, and what's needed to pass.
- Latest public polls on Senate, governor and statewide measure pages.
- Every ballot measure gets a left–right lean, shown on the same spectrum as candidates.
- Donations through Stripe or Ko-fi (/support).
- Search by name or address from any page, plus 'Use my location'.
- Facts for the 37 most-visited Florida special districts.
- Foreign-policy votes for federal candidates.
- My issues: pick up to 3 issues and see every candidate's stated positions side by side.
- Local races and ballot questions in every remaining state with a public candidate list.
Sunday, Oct 25, 2026 · times ET
- Local races for North Carolina, Maryland, Indiana, Virginia, Washington, Minnesota, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Vermont and California (Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties).
- Florida ballots cast so far on state and county pages, refreshed twice a day.
- Explainers for Florida special districts (CDD, fire, mosquito, soil and water, water control).
- We now post neutral ballot facts on Bluesky and X.
- New look: warm paper palette, serif headings and a new logo; better dark mode.
- Collapsible races and sections; each race shows your pick.
- Pages for every race, candidate, state and county, with share previews.
Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 · times ET
- Outside spending (FEC independent expenditures) for 550 federal candidates.
- Ballot at a glance: race counts, placement coverage, money and small donors.
- Short share links for your picks.
- Statewide races, legislatures and ballot measures for all 50 states.
- Florida: county and city races in all 67 counties, the Legislature, judicial retention races, local ballot questions and endorsements from every side.
- SpectrumVote launched: enter an address to see every race on your Nov 3 ballot, each candidate placed on a left–right spectrum from published academic scores.