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Los Angeles Mayor

The mayor shapes the city budget, appoints department leaders, and negotiates priorities on housing, homelessness, public safety, and transportation.

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Councilmember

Elena Marquez

3

issues scored

Housing-first city services with stronger delivery tracking.

Candidate record summary

Marquez has a documented record on housing affordability, transit reliability, and public safety accountability. Voterist scores only those sourced issue areas.

Housing

Strong recordHigh confidence

86

of 100

Supports streamlined permitting near transit and a citywide public land inventory for affordable housing.

Why this score: The score reflects specific supply and affordability actions, supported by both a published plan and a public forum record.

Candidate housing platform Civic forum transcript

Transit reliability

Strong recordHigh confidence

88

of 100

Backs bus-only lanes on major corridors and safer walking routes around schools.

Why this score: Dedicated bus lanes directly address service speed and reliability; the proposal is repeated across two reviewed sources.

Candidate housing platform Civic forum transcript

Public safety accountability

Strong recordMedium confidence

76

of 100

Supports alternative crisis response and quarterly LAPD stop-data publication.

Why this score: Alternative response and stop-data disclosure are concrete accountability measures, though the reviewed record is less extensive than on housing or transit.

Civic forum transcript

Most reported support comes from labor, tenant advocacy, and small-dollar donors.

Business executive

Daniel Cho

3

issues scored

Permit reform, hiring incentives, and police staffing.

Candidate record summary

Cho has a documented record on housing affordability, transit reliability, and public safety capacity. His reviewed materials provide less operational detail on transit reliability.

Housing affordability

Mixed recordMedium confidence

62

of 100

Supports one-stop permitting and tax incentives for mixed-income development.

Why this score: Faster permitting could expand supply, but the reviewed plan is less specific about affordability requirements and long-term affordability.

Candidate economic plan Local newsroom candidate interview

Transit reliability

Weak recordMedium confidence

38

of 100

Mentions station safety and parking management, with limited detail on bus reliability.

Why this score: The reviewed record addresses station safety and parking, but offers little evidence of a plan to improve frequency or on-time service.

Local newsroom candidate interview

Public safety capacity

Mixed recordMedium confidence

68

of 100

Calls for hiring more officers and expanding retail theft enforcement.

Why this score: The proposals are concrete measures to expand enforcement capacity, supported by a published plan, but the record does not cover broader prevention or accountability outcomes.

Candidate economic plan

Reported support is concentrated among business PACs and real estate donors.

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Compare the record issue by issue.

Scores describe documented support for a specific outcome. They are not averaged into an endorsement, and issues without a record are left unscored.

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Source packet

The MVP treats sources as first-class data, not footnotes. Later, each claim can map to exact snippets, screenshots, and archived source versions.

Candidate

Candidate housing platform

Used for Elena Marquez • 2026-05-16

Public record

LA Ethics campaign finance filing

Used for Elena Marquez • 2026-06-30

Forum

Civic forum transcript

Used for Elena Marquez • 2026-06-02

Candidate

Candidate economic plan

Used for Daniel Cho • 2026-05-28

Newsroom

Local newsroom candidate interview

Used for Daniel Cho • 2026-06-11

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Designed for trust before scale.

The product can become powerful only if users, candidates, journalists, and election officials can understand how answers were produced.

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Deadlines, polling places, registration status, and ballot rules should come from official election offices, with Voterist linking out for action.

Every claim has a trail

Summaries are built from source packets, with labels for candidate-provided material, public records, forums, and newsroom reporting.

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Issue scores use a published rubric and documented candidate actions. Voterist does not ask voters to rank priorities or turn scores into endorsements.

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Candidate payments can improve completeness and verification, not ranking, visibility, or recommendation weight.

Uncertainty is visible

Thin records, missing source types, and unresolved contradictions are surfaced instead of smoothed over by the AI layer.

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The MVP should avoid storing vote choices, keep address lookup separate from candidate research, and never expose voter-level data to campaigns.

Prototype content is fictional sample data. Real voting logistics should link to official election offices only.

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