Standards desk
Accuracy over completeness.
An empty field is more honest than a guessed deadline. Midterm Watch publishes only what its sources can support, and keeps confidence visible to readers.
Source
We begin with election offices, secretaries of state, statutes, and official calendars—not aggregators.
Structure
Records are normalized into a strict schema with explicit dates, offices, confidence, and retrieval metadata.
Review
A human checks each source and marks the record verified before it can reach the public build.
Publish
The site, JSON, CSV, and calendar feeds are generated from the same reviewed record.
Confidence language
Confirmed official means the date appears on the election office's own published material. Provisional labels are used when a date relies on secondary reporting or statutory inference.