Voter Guide Commons
For newsrooms

You reported the voter guide. You should get the credit.

When an AI assistant answers a voter's question with your guide, your newsroom's name and a link to your guide go with the answer. Whether that happens at all is your call.

  • You opt in

    Nothing from your guide is used until you sign up and we both agree on how.

  • You keep ownership

    Your guide stays yours. Joining doesn't change who owns it.

  • Every answer credits you

    An answer drawn from your guide names your newsroom and links to your guide.

  • You can leave anytime

    Taking your guide out means deleting one entry on our side. Tell us and we'll remove it.

How your guide is used

Quoted, with credit

Assistants can quote your guide's text word for word, with your newsroom's name and a link to the guide. Voters get the candidates' answers in the reply and a way to read the rest.

The name

What "commons" means here

A commons is a shared resource that the people in it choose to join and keep control of. That's the sense we mean.

It isn't an open license, and joining doesn't put your guide under one. You decide how your guide is used, and you can change your mind.

After you sign up

A person reads every signup

Someone at Hacks/Hackers reviews each one. We check that your links work and that the outlet is who the form says it is, then follow up at the email you give us. Nothing goes live until both sides agree.

The form asks for your outlet's name and website, a link to your published voter guide, which state and races it covers and a contact. If you're a nonprofit, your EIN helps us confirm who you are.

Sign up your guide

Anything the form doesn't ask about can go in the notes.

Go to the signup form