If you’ve found a factual error on ThePolitibase, we want to fix it. Below is how to report errors, what we will and won’t change, and how we handle corrections.
How to report an error
Email us at corrections@thepolitibase.com with:
- The page URL where the error appears
- What’s wrong
- The correct information, with a source we can verify
What we will correct
- Factual errors in our display (wrong vote count, wrong sponsor name, wrong date, etc.)
- Misclassified bills, votes, or status stages
- Broken links, broken images, missing pages
- Outdated information that should be refreshed
What we won’t change
- Anything coming from the official sources we cite. If Congress.gov says a vote was 50-48, we display 50-48. If you believe Congress.gov is wrong, the place to escalate is Congress.gov.
- Editorial framing requests. We don’t editorialize, so there’s nothing to soften.
- Partisan complaints about how a vote is presented. The data is the data.
Our correction process
When we make a correction, we:
- Fix the displayed information immediately
- Note the correction in our internal log
- If the error was significant or affected widely-shared content, we add a note at the bottom of the affected page describing what was changed and when
Cache notes
Some data is cached to keep the site fast. Most pages refresh within an hour. If you see stale data, wait 60 minutes and refresh — if it’s still wrong, that’s a real error and we want to know.