When we get it wrong, we fix it and tell you. This page is our public accountability ledger.
Purple Voice tracks 1,914 bills, 537 lawmakers, and thousands of votes and public filings. We pull from official sources—Congress.gov, the Federal Election Commission, the Senate and House clerk offices—and strive for accuracy in every fact we publish. But mistakes happen. When they do, we correct them promptly, transparently, and publicly.
Trust is earned through transparency. Publishing corrections openly demonstrates that we value accuracy over ego and that every user can rely on the integrity of our data.
Accountability is the foundation of civic infrastructure. If we expect elected officials to answer for their records, we hold ourselves to the same standard.
Corrections: Factual errors in our editorial content, analysis, or presentation—wrong vote date, misattributed quote, incorrect bill status.
Not corrections: Routine data refreshes (votes update daily), typo fixes, or source-agency amendments (e.g., Congress.gov retroactively updates a bill summary). Those are silent updates; we log material errors here.
We review the flagged issue against original source documents and cross-reference official records to confirm the error.
We correct the error immediately in the live content, ensuring no user sees outdated or inaccurate information.
We publish a timestamped correction notice on this page, describing what was wrong and how it was fixed.
If the error appeared in a newsletter or social post, we issue a follow-up correction to the same audience.
We review every report. If you’ve found something wrong—a vote count, bill status, member detail, or any other factual error—please let us know.
Email: [email protected]
Include: URL of the page, description of the error, and a link to the correct source if available.
Response time: We acknowledge all correction requests within 48 hours and publish verified corrections within 72 hours of confirmation.
This log is updated whenever we issue a correction. Most recent entries appear first.
No corrections published yet.
When we issue a correction, it will appear here with full context and timestamp.
We display official data as published by Congress, the Federal Election Commission, and other agencies. If a source agency updates its records, our data refreshes automatically. We do not issue corrections for source-level changes, only for errors we introduced in presentation or analysis.
This corrections log addresses factual errors, not editorial disagreements. If you believe our framing misrepresents the facts, email us at [email protected] with your perspective. We review all feedback, though we do not publish rebuttals on this page.
Indefinitely. We never delete published corrections. This log is a permanent, public accountability record.
If the error appeared in a newsletter, social media post, or other distribution channel, we issue a follow-up correction to that same audience. On-site errors are corrected immediately and logged here; we do not send retroactive notifications for web-only content.
We appreciate the diligence. We’ll review your report, verify against our sources, and reply to explain why the original information was correct. No correction will be published if the content was accurate.
Yes. We only need enough information to verify and fix the error. You do not need to provide your name, though an email address helps us follow up if we need clarification.
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