Ballotpedia partners with Twitter to identify 2020 election candidates
Contact: Kristen Vonasek, Director of Communications
Tel: (608) 255-0688
E-mail: Media@ballotpedia.org
Providing two ways for Twitter users to verify candidates’ accounts
Middleton, Wis. - December 12, 2019: Ballotpedia’s election team will be providing Twitter with the data to identify candidates who will appear on 2020 ballots in gubernatorial and Congressional races this November.
Ballotpedia is excited to help power this feature that will allow Twitter users to feel confident that they are viewing content from verified candidates in 2020 races.
Twitter will use Ballotpedia data to verify the candidates’ Twitter profiles by adding a blue-check mark next to their campaign Twitter handle and apply election labels to the general election candidates. These identifiers will appear on tweets and profile pages of political candidates in select races.
Ballotpedia covers all candidates in every upcoming election occurring within the 100 most-populated cities in the U.S., plus all federal and statewide elections, including ballot measures.
After each state filing deadline, Twitter will verify the campaign Twitter accounts of gubernatorial and Congressional candidates running in the primaries, as identified by the Ballotpedia team.
After each state primary, Ballotpedia will provide Twitter with information on gubernatorial and Congressional candidates who will appear on the November ballot so that Twitter can apply the labels to each candidate profile. You will begin to see these after the first primary on March 3rd.
Candidates in these races are encouraged to reach out to Ballotpedia with their campaign Twitter handles. Those can be submitted via email at editor@ballotpedia.org, or through our questionnaire, located at https://ballotpedia.org/Survey.
About Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia is the online encyclopedia of American politics and elections. Its goal is to preserve and expand knowledge about politics by providing objective information about local, state, and federal politics and policies. Its content includes trustworthy information readers can rely on, covering 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 includes over 270,000 professionally authored encyclopedic articles that have garnered over 1 billion page views.
If you’d like more information, or to schedule an interview, please contact Ballotpedia's Director of Communications at media@Ballotpedia.org.
