For site owners
EveryElectionBot
The crawler that keeps our election listings current.
Last updated September 23, 2026
- What it reads
- Public election pages published by state and local election offices: election calendars, notices, candidate lists, sample ballots, and results. Nothing behind a login and nothing personal.
- How politely
- It obeys robots.txt and identifies itself as EveryElectionBot.
- Requests to each site are spaced out by a per-site rate limit.
- Conditional requests (ETag, Last-Modified) so unchanged pages cost almost nothing.
- Most pages are checked daily or less; it backs off after errors.
- Why
- To list every election a voter is eligible for, with each date linked back to your page as the source. We never republish your documents wholesale.
- Ask for a change
- To change how often we visit, point us at a better page or feed, or stop us, use the contact page and choose “Crawler”. Election offices get a same-day response during election periods.
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