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A Quarter of a Million Pages of Content
Contact: Kristen Vonasek, Director of Communications
Tel: (608) 255-0688
E-mail: Kristen.Vonasek@Ballotpedia.org
Ballotpedia Publishes Its 250,000th Encyclopedic Article
Middleton, Wis. - December 9, 2016: Ballotpedia.org’s first article came into existence on June 5, 2007. Now, Ballotpedia is celebrating the creation of its 250,000th article!
A quarter of a million pages is no small feat. Ballotpedia’s dedicated professional staff of 60+ editors, writers, and researchers comb through truckloads of information to provide readers with up-to-date encyclopedic articles on federal, state, and local politics and public policy. The information contained on Ballotpedia.org would fill over 264 Bibles.
Take a walk down memory lane and check out the pages that debuted throughout Ballotpedia’s history:
- 1st page: Ballot, created June 5, 2007
- 25th page: Filing of Petition and Election Initiative and Referendum in Cities, Towns and Counties (Arizona), created June 11, 2007
- 250th page: Mary Jodi Rell, created June 21, 2007
- 2,500th page: City of Oakland Utility Users Tax, Measure J (June 2008), created April 18, 2008
- 25,00th page: Village of Sammons Point Home Rule Question (February 2010), created January 15, 2010
- 250,000th page: The Tap: Friday, December 2, 2016, created December 7, 2016
The celebrations will continue as Ballotpedia observes its 10th anniversary later this month!
About Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia is the online encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Its goal is to inform people about politics by providing exceptionally high-quality, accurate, and objective information about local, state, and federal politics and policies. Its content includes neutral, accurate, and verifiable information on government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, candidates, and the influencers of politics. Headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin, Ballotpedia was founded in 2006. It has grown to include over 250,000 professionally authored encyclopedic articles that have garnered over 600 million page views.
If you’d like more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact Ballotpedia's Director of Communications at Kristen.Vonasek@Ballotpedia.org.
