How to use this site

Getting around

The links at the top of every page lead to each section. The page you are on is underlined.

• District map and Districts: California's 72 community college districts and their student trustees.
• Legislation: who represents you and how they vote, from Congress down to county boards.
• Elections: dates, deadlines and who is on the ballot in every state.
• About: who runs the site and how to reach them.

Every page works with the keyboard alone. Press Tab to move between links and Enter to follow one. The first Tab on any page offers a link that skips straight to the content.

The district map

1. Open the District map. Each district is drawn to its real boundary and colored by its student senate region.
2. Type in the search box to find a trustee, a district, a college or an email address.
3. Select a district on the map or in the list to see its student trustee and their contact details.
4. Press Table view to see every district as a table. On a phone, List opens the list of districts.

District pages

Every district has its own page, listed on Districts by region. A district's page shows its student trustee, their contact details, the colleges in the district and a link to the board. Districts with no student trustee listed say so.

Legislation

1. Open Legislation and pick a state on the map of states.
2. Choose one of three views: How they voted lists recent roll-call votes, Who represents me lists the state's legislators and members of Congress, and What's coming up lists votes on the schedule.
3. Use the level buttons (All levels, Federal, State, County) to narrow the list, and More filters to narrow it by things like chamber and result.
4. Open a vote to see how every member voted, a bill to see every vote on it, or a legislator to see their record.
5. Pick a county on the state's page for that county board's votes, where the county publishes them.
6. The calendars show the deadlines for the California Legislature and Congress.

Elections

1. Open Elections and pick a state. Each tile shows the date of the state's next election.
2. The top of the state's page shows the registration deadline, mail ballot rules, early voting dates and a link to the state's election office.
3. Who's running lists the races and candidates. Use the level buttons to narrow the list. In California you can also see state races, county supervisor races and community college board seats.
4. Open a race to see every candidate. In California, each one shows the ballot designation they chose.
5. Results shows certified counts once an election is certified, never a live tally.
6. Every federal race lists every U.S. House and Senate race in the country on one page.

Where the records come from

The Legislation and Elections records refresh every night from official sources: Congress, the California Legislature, county boards, the Federal Election Commission and state election offices. Each record links the source it came from and says when it was last updated.

• If a refresh has not run for more than a day and a half, a notice at the top of the page says so.
• The Legislation sources and Elections sources pages show the status of every source.
• The official source is always the final word. Each page links it.
• Spot something wrong? The link at the bottom of every page emails the person who maintains the site.