OPEN STATES TUTORIAL
Channel: SunlightFoundation
Date: 2012-09-19

Open States lets you find information about your state representatives and legislation. This tutorial provides an overview on how to use Open States to identify your representative, search and track legislation, explore bill history and votes and contact lawmakers.

Since we recorded this tutorial, we modified the design and tracking system for Open States, so there will be slight variations from the screencast in this video versus the current design. If you wish to follow a state legislator or bill activity using Open States or Sunlight's Scout service, please click on the "Login" link next to the legislator or bill's name.

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This tutorial is a part of Sunlight Academy, a free training portal by Sunlight Foundation. For more information visit: http://training.sunlightfoundation.com

All Open States data is available via this website, our API, bulk downloads and the Open States iOS Application. For more about the project please visit: http://openstates.org

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Music: Twinkie by Podington Bear + Love Story by Fhernando

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License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
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