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Democracy Works

Democracy Works is a nonprofit civic technology organization providing reliable voting guidance for federal, state, and local elections. Its Elections API powers voter-facing platforms, apps, reminders, and outreach campaigns with comprehensive election and election-authority data keyed to Open Civic Data IDs.

Democracy Works publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Authorities API, Elections API, and Exports API. Tagged areas include Civic Tech, Elections, Government, Nonprofit, and Voter Information.

The Democracy Works catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Democracy Works’ developer surface includes GitHub presence, support, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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45.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessFreemium
3 APIs
Civic TechElectionsGovernmentNonprofitVoter InformationVoting

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 45.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.9 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Democracy Works Authorities API

The Authorities API from Democracy Works — 3 operation(s) for authorities.

Democracy Works Elections API

The Elections API from Democracy Works — 1 operation(s) for elections.

Democracy Works Exports API

The Exports API from Democracy Works — 1 operation(s) for exports.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Democracy Works Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Democracy Works Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Democracy Works Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Democracy Works Context

2 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Democracy Works API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Democracy Works API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Authority

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Election

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Democracy Works Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Data Portal
Data Portal

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

GoogleGroup
GoogleGroup

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: democracy-works
name: Democracy Works
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/democracy-works/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
kind: contract
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
tags:
- Civic Tech
- Elections
- Government
- Nonprofit
- Voter Information
- Voting
created: '2024-03-30'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
description: Democracy Works is a nonprofit civic technology organization providing reliable voting guidance for federal,
  state, and local elections. Its Elections API powers voter-facing platforms, apps, reminders, and outreach campaigns with
  comprehensive election and election-authority data keyed to Open Civic Data IDs.
apis:
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-authorities-api
  name: Democracy Works Authorities API
  description: The Authorities API from Democracy Works — 3 operation(s) for authorities.
  humanURL: https://data.democracy.works/api-info
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Authorities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-authorities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.democracy.works/api-info
  - type: Signup
    url: https://data.democracy.works/api-signup
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/democracy-works-elections-api-rules.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: capabilities/democracy-works-elections-api-capabilities.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-election-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-authority-schema.json
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-elections-api
  name: Democracy Works Elections API
  description: The Elections API from Democracy Works — 1 operation(s) for elections.
  humanURL: https://data.democracy.works/api-info
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Elections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-elections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.democracy.works/api-info
  - type: Signup
    url: https://data.democracy.works/api-signup
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/democracy-works-elections-api-rules.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: capabilities/democracy-works-elections-api-capabilities.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-election-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-authority-schema.json
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-exports-api
  name: Democracy Works Exports API
  description: The Exports API from Democracy Works — 1 operation(s) for exports.
  humanURL: https://data.democracy.works/api-info
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Exports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-exports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.democracy.works/api-info
  - type: Signup
    url: https://data.democracy.works/api-signup
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/democracy-works-elections-api-rules.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: capabilities/democracy-works-elections-api-capabilities.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-election-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-authority-schema.json
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/democracy-works-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/democracyworks
- type: Website
  url: https://www.democracy.works
- type: Data Portal
  url: https://data.democracy.works
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/democracyworks
- type: GoogleGroup
  url: https://groups.google.com/a/democracy.works/g/democracy-works-data
- type: Support
  url: mailto:partnerships@democracy.works
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/democracy-works-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/democracy-works-vocabulary.yml
- url: https://www.democracy.works/newsroom
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com