The first RESTful API for the Federal Election Commission. We're aiming to make campaign finance more accessible for journalists, academics, developers, and other transparency seekers.
What we're after: The independent expenditures table on election profile pages include aggregates of the total money spent by a committee in IEs to support or oppose a specific candidate. Upon clicking on that aggregate amount, users should be taken to the list of transactions that contribute to that total. Unfortunately, when clicking on the aggregate amount, users are taken to an unfiltered table that lists all IEs.
This should be corrected so that upon clicking on the aggregate amount, users see a filtered list of only those IEs that contribute to that aggregate IE total.
What we're after: The independent expenditures table on election profile pages include aggregates of the total money spent by a committee in IEs to support or oppose a specific candidate. Upon clicking on that aggregate amount, users should be taken to the list of transactions that contribute to that total. Unfortunately, when clicking on the aggregate amount, users are taken to an unfiltered table that lists all IEs.
This should be corrected so that upon clicking on the aggregate amount, users see a filtered list of only those IEs that contribute to that aggregate IE total.
Example: Before: https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/senate/AZ/2018/?tab=spending-by-others
After: