Nonpartisan · Fact-based · Open
How Civanta Works
Civanta helps everyday people find their representatives, work out who handles a problem, turn a concern into action, and understand what running for office involves.
AI helps Civanta understand language. Verified sources determine civic facts.
- Understanding a civic problem written in plain, everyday words
- Translating government language into plain English
- Drafting a message to a public official for you to edit
- Drafting an awareness post for you to edit
- Structuring a policy proposal you supply the viewpoint for
- Who currently holds office
- District boundaries
- Election dates
- Polling places
- Candidates on a ballot
- How someone voted
- Whether a bill passed
- Official contact information
Where our civic data comes from
Each record we show carries its source and the date we last checked it. If a source has nothing for you, we say so rather than filling the gap in.
Matches an address to its congressional and state legislative districts, and draws district outlines.
Current U.S. senators and U.S. representatives, with official contact pages.
Current state senators and state representatives.
Federal election dates and candidates who have filed to run.
Ballot information published by election officials: races, candidates, measures and voting locations.
Coverage is still expanding. Civanta has federal and state representatives nationwide. County, city, school board and other local offices are not connected to a nationwide official source yet, so those levels are often empty. We do not claim complete local coverage, and we never invent an officeholder, a race or a deadline.
Privacy
- Residential addresses you enter for a representative or ballot lookup are not stored by default.
- Your street address is never sent to Civanta's AI model.
- Your address is sent to the government or civic data provider needed to perform the lookup you asked for — for example the U.S. Census Bureau for districts, or the Civic Information API for ballot details.
- Issue descriptions and generated drafts are not stored by default.
- Generated drafts stay in your browser session unless you deliberately save something where Civanta supports saving, such as a candidate roadmap on your profile.
- If you sign in and choose to save your districts, only the district numbers, city, state and ZIP are stored on your profile — not your street address.
- Civanta does not send messages, emails or social posts on your behalf. Every draft is yours to copy, edit and send yourself.
What Civanta is not
Civanta does not score, grade or rank politicians. It takes no position on candidates, parties or policies. It is civic information and educational guidance, not legal advice.
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