About this project

Neutral research that points back to original records

Research My Candidates is an independent Kansas voter-research guide. It is not operated by the State of Kansas, a county election office, a political party, a campaign, or a candidate.

Purpose

The site helps a voter narrow the offices and candidates relevant to an address, then continue to the original election, filing, finance, legislative, court, and county sources. It does not replace an official sample ballot or registration lookup.

Neutrality

The site does not endorse, rank, score, or recommend candidates. Party labels and office names are shown as identification, not approval. Missing information is treated as a coverage gap rather than evidence for or against a person.

Source standards

Material factual claims should link to an identifiable publisher and preserve the difference between official records, campaign statements, journalism, polling, and site-written explanation. Election dates, candidate filing status, and final ballot details should be verified at the original election authority before a voter relies on them.

The official public sources guide identifies the primary destinations used for Kansas election research.

Address and ballot limitations

ZIP codes can cross precinct, legislative, city, township, school, and judicial boundaries. Address matching can narrow the research, but the result may still be incomplete when an official live ballot source is unavailable. The interface links to Kansas VoterView and county election offices for final verification.

Updates and corrections

Source records change throughout an election cycle. The site displays update or verification dates where available and should remove stale, duplicate, failed, or out-of-jurisdiction imports from public pages. A structured public correction form and source-change history are planned. Until then, users should resolve urgent ballot questions with their county election office.

Advertising separation

Advertising revenue may help operate the service, but ads do not determine candidate coverage, source selection, summaries, or prominence. Ads must remain visually separate from menus, lookup controls, candidate links, and other navigation.