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Data sources for OpenGovernment 1.0

• News mentions (Bing, Google News Search, Google Blog Search) for people and bills
  • not in 2.0, as those searches have a low signal-to-noise ratio

Project VoteSmart

• Person photos, addresses and URLs
  • 2.0 uses OpenStates only
• Person ratings by special interest groups
  • not in 2.0, as these ratings require a deep understanding of each special interest group
• [Highlights and synopses of key votes on bills](https://github.com/opengovernment/opengovernment/blob/master/lib/open_gov/key_votes.rb
  • not in 2.0, as there were only 681 bills at the state level tracked by Project VoteSmart in 2012

In additional to the 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, Project VoteSmart tracks American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands and the United States of America.

Influence Explorer

• Person biographies: same in 2.0

Wikipedia

• Person biographies if Influence Explorer is unavailable: 2.0 uses Influence Explorer only