Written by: Karen Suhaka | April 25, 2016

BillTrack50 allows you to rate bills important to you, and then we add up how everyone voted to show you which legislators are helping or hurting your cause. You can keep the information private, or make it public, depending on your goals. Scorecards are easy to create, and we keep them automatically updated for you. We also give you several ways to customize the scorecard and fine tune the scoring, to make sure you’re getting (and sharing) exactly the information you want.

Here’s an example from the Idaho Freedom Foundation which is used in the video.

This webinar was a half hour lesson on legislator scorecards, covering both basic and advanced topics. Table of contents:

0:30 Creating a Scorecard
1:20 Position Column in Bill Sheet
2:15 Basics of Rating Bills
4:50 Using the Edit Screen
5:25 Fine Tuning Vote Scores
7:50 Tour of Scorecard Displays, using Customer Example
11:05 How and Why to (and who can) Use a Scorecard
14:00 Setting up Categories, using Customer Example
19:30 Dealing With Legislators Who Miss Votes
21:05 Publishing a Scorecard
22:25 Using Scorecards Internally (PAC/Grassroots)
23:40 Filtering and Exporting

 

Or view video here: https://youtu.be/0eN_GkXZB-c

 

 

About BillTrack50 – BillTrack50 is a user friendly free service that provides legislation research in all 50 states and federally. BillTrack50 also offers legislation and regulation tracking across the nation with tools to help organization stay on top of changes (bill sheets and alerts) and share legislation they are tracking with key stakeholders (legislator scorecardswidgets and stakeholder pages). If you are interested in learning more about how BillTrack50 saves organizations time and money, sign up for a demo and try it out BillTrack50 Pro for a month, for free.