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I am looking for someone to create a spreadsheet of current political candidates in the United States. The spreadsheet should contain:
- Candidate Name
- Office candidate is running for
- State candidate is located in
- Candidate political party
- Candidate email address
- Candidate phone number
All this information is available publicly and can be found on Google. The hardest thing to get is the email address, but they are also public. Each state, as well as each city and county, has different websites where they list candidates for political office and also generally list all the information I need (mentioned above), including e-mail address. Some of these websites are easier to find and to use than others.
For example, some states have a single webpage that contain all the information listed above -- in one page they will list each candidate, their office, their party, their email and their phone number. Other states have a page that list each candidate, but you have to... click on each candidate name and pull up their individual documents to get their email and phone, requiring a bit more work.
Furthermore, the process I mentioned above are on state websites. They will generally list candidates under the state purview: U.S. Congress (House and Senate), Statewide Elected Offices (Governor, Attorney General, etc..), and State Legislature (House and Senate). But there are MANY more candidates running for local offices. Mayor of a city, county commissioner, local judge, sheriff, etc.. These candidates might be found on a city or county website, rather than the state website.
Ultimately, what I'm looking for is someone to do all the research. I don't know how long it will take but I imagine it will be many hours of research. Start with each state and one by one find as many as you can. Then start looking at individual cities and counties, starting with larger ones and working to smaller ones.
While this project is simple, it's a pretty large project. There are 50 states, 3153 counties and 19,495 cities in the USA. Each one of them will have MANY candidates. We're talking about potentially 25,000+ candidates. And it changes every single year, so this does have the potential to be a longer term project.
But I just need someone to start on this soon. I don't need EVERY candidate immediately, but I need hundreds, if not a few thousand, as soon as possible.
Your work will be checked, so false info, lying about emails, etc.. is unacceptable and will not work for this project. It may be possible some candidates you can't find an email or a phone number, or you can't find their political party, and that's fine. I just need someone to do the research correctly and get as many as they can. I am open to hiring multiple people for this projectShow full descriptionCollapse