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Every file below is built from official government records. Each row carries the official source link that proves it and a permanent citation ID. Rows without an official source link are left out, and each dataset says what it does not cover.

Datasets

Verified datasets

Files were last generated on . The manifest lists every file with its record count, size and SHA-256 hash.

2026 general election deadlines (verified statewide records)

Statewide voter-registration, mail-ballot, early-voting and Election Day deadlines for the November 3, 2026 general election that VoteFiles verified against preserved official source pages with a later court-order check. Only records inside their current review window are included; a missing category means no official record has been verified yet, not that no deadline exists.

Records
192
Coverage
2026
Generated
Not included
Categories without a verified, current, statewide record are omitted.

JSON · 119 KB CSV · 75 KB

Official sources: State and territorial election authorities (each row links its own official source) ↗

Columns and SHA-256 hashes
citation_id
Permanent VoteFiles citation ID
jurisdiction
Two-letter state or territory code
category
Deadline category
event
Event within the category
method
Submission or voting method
voter_scope
Voters the row covers
date
Deadline date (YYYY-MM-DD)
cutoff_time_local
Local cutoff time when the source states one
timezone
IANA time zone of the cutoff
label
Plain-language description
authority
Publishing election authority
official_source_url
Official page that states the date
last_checked
Date VoteFiles last reviewed the source and later orders
recheck_on
Date by which the record is reviewed again
permalink
VoteFiles citation permalink
JSON SHA-256
f13190ef2aef0ab944cd8d6cdbdcf36b348b5d08086b62887d4f37258387d661
CSV SHA-256
b8dc898942cee31b0746b9d5ee90540025d752b3948c78acc6011905fe76dd9e

Congressional bills and resolutions

Bills and resolutions from the official GovInfo BILLSTATUS record: number, official title, introduction date, latest action as written by the clerk, sponsor, and enactment. Derived status labels are not included.

Records
381,540
Coverage
Congresses held in the VoteFiles archive
Generated
Not included
Only the Congresses currently loaded in the archive are included.

JSON · 258.6 MB CSV · 156.2 MB

Official sources: Congress.gov ↗ · GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data ↗

Columns and SHA-256 hashes
citation_id
Permanent VoteFiles citation ID
congress
Congress number
bill_type
Official bill-type code
bill_number
Bill number
label
Formatted designation
title
Short title, else official title
introduced_date
Introduction date
latest_action_date
Date of the latest recorded action
latest_action
Latest action text as written in the official record
sponsor_name
Sponsor as listed
sponsor_party
Sponsor party as listed
sponsor_state
Sponsor state as listed
is_law
1 when the official record shows enactment
law_number
Law number when enacted
official_source_url
Congress.gov page
last_checked
Date VoteFiles last read the official BILLSTATUS record
permalink
VoteFiles citation permalink
votefiles_url
VoteFiles record page
JSON SHA-256
ede5505bbfef36ef53cb3e906ef5297313d9a120afd7e2d7c8d3f73f12efbf11
CSV SHA-256
b7dd1590afb70d80bee8cb0ccc2f788d65ba13600812de307f8938703c0b0bed

House and Senate roll-call votes with official digital records

Roll-call questions, dates and yea and nay totals for every vote that has an official digital roll-call record (House Clerk from 1990, Senate.gov from the 101st Congress). A result is included only where the chamber recorded one; no outcome is computed.

Records
35,262
Coverage
1989 to present
Generated
Not included
Earlier votes are reproduced on VoteFiles from the official journals but are not exported here because they have no official digital record link.

JSON · 15.2 MB CSV · 8.6 MB

Official sources: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives ↗ · U.S. Senate roll-call votes ↗ · Voteview (UCLA) compilation of the official journals ↗

Columns and SHA-256 hashes
citation_id
Permanent VoteFiles citation ID
congress
Congress number
chamber
House or Senate
rollnumber
Roll-call number within the Congress in the VoteFiles archive
session
Session number
clerk_rollnumber
Roll-call number as numbered by the chamber
date
Vote date
question
Question put to the vote
bill
Measure designation when one is recorded
yea
Yea total
nay
Nay total
recorded_result
Result as recorded by the chamber (blank when none is on file)
official_source_url
Official roll-call record
permalink
VoteFiles citation permalink
votefiles_url
VoteFiles record page
JSON SHA-256
e7ae57ab0919be1f1cb60859b091369af5e52686a9faf3e409d714ca4d028e6c
CSV SHA-256
5bffad5a578c445328c405d5019a5a02f7a2981e37fd129fd18bb1fd064c92b4

Executive orders with Federal Register or National Archives records

Executive orders with an official Federal Register or National Archives link: number, title, signing and publication dates, and Federal Register citation.

Records
6,415
Coverage
1937 to present, where an official link exists
Generated
Not included
Orders known only from academic archives are shown on VoteFiles with that attribution but are not exported here.

JSON · 3.1 MB CSV · 1.9 MB

Official sources: Federal Register ↗ · National Archives executive orders disposition tables ↗

Columns and SHA-256 hashes
citation_id
Permanent VoteFiles citation ID
eo_key
Order number or document key
eo_number
Order number
title
Title as published
signed_date
Signing date
publication_date
Federal Register publication date
president
Federal Register president identifier
fr_citation
Federal Register citation
fr_document_number
Federal Register document number
official_source_url
Official record link
permalink
VoteFiles citation permalink
votefiles_url
VoteFiles record page
JSON SHA-256
86c2b055f8e73094a952218cf73d57be36f4eae6a586e2f7b8dde0cf6cb0db9a
CSV SHA-256
29fab3d5b296743cfc3cef0c3c086e873890594827e37c98cd2e1d12910e7ff1
License and provenance

What you may reuse

Works of the United States government are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. section 105, and dates and vote totals are facts of the public record. State election pages are linked row by row to the authority that published them. Reuse of the compiled files is governed by the Vote Files Terms of use; underlying U.S. government records are public domain (17 U.S.C. 105). Please cite the official source for each fact and Vote Files for the compilation.

Citations

Permanent citation IDs

Every bill, roll-call vote with an official digital record, executive order with a Federal Register or National Archives record, and verified election deadline has a citation ID built from its official identifier. The ID never changes. Its permanent page, https://votefiles.com/cite/{citation-id}, gives the fact, the official source, the date Vote Files last checked it, and AP, APA, Chicago, BibTeX and plain-link citations. Add ?format=json for the same record in machine-readable form.

Bill
bill-{congress}-{type}{number}, for example bill-119-hr1
Roll-call vote
vote-{congress}-{h or s}{roll}, for example vote-119-h9
Executive order
eo-{order number}, for example eo-14100
Election deadline
deadline-{ledger record ID}, listed in the deadlines dataset

When no publishable official record exists for an ID, its page says: “No official record has been found at this time. We are watching for updates.”

Search and AI access

Machine-readable entry points

  • llms.txt: a short guide for AI assistants to the site, its publishing standard and its citations.
  • llms-full.txt: the full guide, with record URL patterns and dataset details.
  • sitemap.xml: the index of every public record page.
  • robots.txt: search and AI crawlers are welcome on public pages.
  • Sources and methodology: where every dataset comes from and what is computed.