Legislative scorecard
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A legislative scorecard, in North American parlance, refers to any ranked balanced scorecard used by advocacy groups to rank sitting legislators or candidates for legislative office on their voting record. It is also used to refer to ranked indexes of introduced or ratified legislation on certain criteria.
Scorecards are usually aggregated on an annual basis, and are often composed by political advocacy groups as educative tools for voters in their decision-making at the ballot box. They are also useful for endorsement of candidates by other organizations.
Notable legislative scorecards
- AFL–CIO
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Conservative Union
- Americans for Democratic Action
- Americans for Prosperity
- Family Research Council
- FreedomWorks
- Heritage Action
- Human Rights Campaign
- Humane Society
- League of Conservation Voters
- NAACP
- National Taxpayers Union
- Planned Parenthood
- Progressive Public Health and Environmental Scorecard (National Nurses United, Food & Water Watch, and Progressive Democrats of America)
References
References
- [https://aflcio.org/legislative-scorecard Legislative Scorecard] - AFL–CIO
- [https://www.aclu.org/other/legislative-scorecard-2018 ACLU's Legislative Scorecard 2018] - American Civil Liberties Union
- "Legislative Ratings | The American Conservative Union". Conservative.org.
- [https://adaction.org/ada-voting-records/ ADA Voting Records] - Americans for Democratic Action
- [https://americansforprosperity.org/national-scorecard AFP Scorecard] - Americans for Prosperity
- [https://www.frcaction.org/scorecard FRC Action Vote Scorecard] - Family Research Council
- [http://congress.freedomworks.org/ Congressional Scorecards] - FreedomWorks
- [https://heritageaction.com/scorecard Scorecard] - Heritage Action
- [http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/congressional-scorecard-for-the-111th-congress/ Congressional Scorecard] - Human Rights Campaign
- [http://www.hslf.org/our-work/humane-scorecard.html Humane Scorecard]
- [http://scorecard.lcv.org/ National Environmental Scorecard] - League of Conservation Voters
- [https://www.naacp.org/report-cards/ Civil Rights Legislative Report Cards] - NAACP
- [http://www.ntu.org/on-capitol-hill/ntu-rates-congress/ NTU Rates Congress] - National Taxpayers Union
- [https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/congressional-scorecard Planned Parenthood Congressional Scorecard] {{webarchive. link. (2014-06-14)
- [https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/scorecard Progressive Public Health and Environmental Scorecard] - National Nurses United
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