Democracy Works

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) civic technology nonprofit, founded in 2010, that provides Americans with the guidance they need to vote in every election. Its Elections API delivers comprehensive federal, state, county and municipal election data — dates, deadlines, registration and voting methods, contests, candidates, ballot measures, endorsements and polling locations — keyed to Open Civic Data IDs and used by search, social and AI platforms including TikTok, Meta, Perplexity and Anthropic. It also runs TurboVote and co-runs the Voting Information Project with 40+ states.

Democracy Works publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Authorities API, Elections API, Exports API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Civic Tech, Elections, Government, Non-Profit, 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 authentication, developer portal, engineering blog, documentation, API reference, support, changelog, and 22 more developer resources.

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56.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

3 APIs

Civic Tech Elections Government Non-ProfitVoter InformationVoting

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Composite quality — 56.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 14.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 9.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 9

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.

Democracy Works Ballot Measures API

The Ballot Measures API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single ballot measure by id, with its ballot question, summary, yes/no framing, topics, status and endors...

Democracy Works Candidates API

The Candidates API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single candidate by id, with party affiliation, incumbency, write-in status, running mate, ranked-choice round...

Democracy Works Contests API

The Contests API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single contest by id, with its candidate list, seats up for election, ranked-choice rules, partisan-primary rule...

Democracy Works Endorsements API

The Endorsements API from Democracy Works — 2 operations: one endorsement by id, and endorsements in bulk for a candidate id or a ballot-measure id. Every endorsement carries th...

Democracy Works Voting Locations API

The Voting Locations API from Democracy Works — 1 operation returning polling places, early-voting sites and ballot drop boxes for a street address, with hours, open/close dates...

Democracy Works Elections API v1 (legacy)

The first generation of the Democracy Works Elections API — 3 operations for upcoming elections and state election authorities. Still served at the unversioned base path and sti...

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Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Democracy Works Authorities API

OPEN COLLECTION

Democracy Works Elections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Democracy Works Exports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Democracy Works Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Democracy Works Rate Limits

0 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 2

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

Democracy Works Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Democracy Works Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Conformance

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Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

StatusPage

Support

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

MailingList

MailingList

Source (apis.yml)

aid: democracy-works
name: Democracy Works
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/democracy-works/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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
- Non-Profit
- Voter Information
- Voting
tags_raw:
- Civic Tech
- Elections
- Government
- Nonprofit
- Voter Information
- Voting
created: '2024-03-30'
modified: '2026-09-07'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: Democracy Works is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) civic technology nonprofit, founded in 2010, that provides Americans
  with the guidance they need to vote in every election. Its Elections API delivers comprehensive federal, state, county and
  municipal election data — dates, deadlines, registration and voting methods, contests, candidates, ballot measures, endorsements
  and polling locations — keyed to Open Civic Data IDs and used by search, social and AI platforms including TikTok, Meta,
  Perplexity and Anthropic. It also runs TurboVote and co-runs the Voting Information Project with 40+ states.
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://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Authorities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-authorities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-authorities-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/democracy-works-elections-api-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-election-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-authority-schema.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/democracy-works-authorities-api.postman_collection.json
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- 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://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Elections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-elections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-elections-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/democracy-works-elections-api-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-election-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-authority-schema.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/democracy-works-elections-api.postman_collection.json
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- 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://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Export
  tags_raw:
  - Exports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-exports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-exports-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/democracy-works-elections-api-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-election-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/democracy-works-authority-schema.json
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/democracy-works-exports-api.postman_collection.json
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-ballot-measures-api
  name: Democracy Works Ballot Measures API
  description: The Ballot Measures API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single ballot measure by id, with its
    ballot question, summary, yes/no framing, topics, status and endorsement counts. Sourced from Ballotpedia.
  humanURL: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Ballot Measures
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-ballot-measures-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-ballot-measures-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-candidates-api
  name: Democracy Works Candidates API
  description: The Candidates API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single candidate by id, with party affiliation,
    incumbency, write-in status, running mate, ranked-choice round and Ballotpedia link.
  humanURL: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Candidates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-candidates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-candidates-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-contests-api
  name: Democracy Works Contests API
  description: The Contests API from Democracy Works — 1 operation retrieving a single contest by id, with its candidate list,
    seats up for election, ranked-choice rules, partisan-primary rules and cancellation status.
  humanURL: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Contests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-contests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-contests-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-endorsements-api
  name: Democracy Works Endorsements API
  description: 'The Endorsements API from Democracy Works — 2 operations: one endorsement by id, and endorsements in bulk
    for a candidate id or a ballot-measure id. Every endorsement carries the endorsing organization and its source.'
  humanURL: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Endorsements
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-endorsements-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-endorsements-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-voting-locations-api
  name: Democracy Works Voting Locations API
  description: The Voting Locations API from Democracy Works — 1 operation returning polling places, early-voting sites and
    ballot drop boxes for a street address, with hours, open/close dates, coordinates, source attribution and the normalized
    address the service resolved.
  humanURL: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works/v2
  tags:
  - Voting Locations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-voting-locations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-voting-locations-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
- aid: democracy-works:democracy-works-elections-v1-api
  name: Democracy Works Elections API v1 (legacy)
  description: 'The first generation of the Democracy Works Elections API — 3 operations for upcoming elections and state
    election authorities. Still served at the unversioned base path and still documented (it is what the developer portal
    root returns), superseded by v2 in January 2024 but never marked deprecated and carrying no Sunset header. Uses a different
    auth header (Authorization: apikey) and returns application/edn error bodies.'
  humanURL: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v1
  baseURL: https://api.democracy.works
  tags:
  - Elections v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/democracy-works-elections-v1-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/democracy-works-elections-v1-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v1
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v1
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json-icons/democracy-works-elections-api-democracy-works-election-data.png
common:
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/democracy-works-authentication.yml
- 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: Portal
  url: https://data.democracy.works
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/democracyworks
- type: MailingList
  url: https://groups.google.com/a/democracy.works/g/democracy-works-data
- type: Contact
  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/news
  type: Blog
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.democracy.works/api/v2
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.democracy.works
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.democracy.works/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://www.democracy.works/contact
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/democracy-works-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/democracy-works-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/democracy-works-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/democracy-works-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/democracy-works-changelog.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/democracy-works-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/democracy-works-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/democracy-works-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/democracy-works-rate-limits.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/democracy-works-sandbox.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/democracy-works-mcp.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-07'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 29
  pass: local-v3

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