Advertising policy

Current status

Google AdSense is not connected. No Google advertising tag or ad unit is loaded.

Publisher identity, consent testing, and live serving are separate deployment stages. Partial configuration fails closed, and removing the serving switch stops new ad requests without removing the public publisher identity used for account verification.

Clear separation

Advertisements will be labeled and visually distinguishable from reporting, navigation, downloads, and other site controls. We will not encourage readers to click ads, disguise ads as government records, place ads where accidental interaction is likely, or imply that an advertiser is endorsed by Our Elected USA or a public agency.

Where ads may appear

The first advertising phase is limited to substantive, human-reviewed articles with primary-source citations. Ads are excluded from account, authentication, admin, search, legal, contact, error, empty, alert, and under-construction screens. A data page that lacks meaningful publisher context is not made eligible merely because it is public.

Editorial independence

Advertisers do not select coverage, review articles before publication, change significance scores, or receive favorable treatment in a dataset. Sponsored material, if ever introduced, will be separately labeled and will not be presented as independent reporting.

Privacy and consent

Before advertising is enabled, the privacy policy and consent controls must describe the applicable data processing and choices. Visitors in regions covered by Google's consent requirements receive a Google-certified consent flow before eligible personalized advertising or advertising storage is used. A Privacy choices link remains in the site footer.

Traffic and measurement

We do not ask readers to click advertisements, purchase traffic to manufacture impressions, refresh units automatically, or join advertising reports to identifiable accounts. Revenue, coverage, and viewability are reviewed in aggregate through the provider. Editorial source use, party or policy interests, saved records, and representation data are not used to create advertising audiences.

Questions and concerns

Report a misleading, disruptive, or inappropriate advertisement through the contact page with the page URL, time, and a description of what appeared. Do not click an advertisement repeatedly to reproduce a problem.