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Thank you for your interest in completing Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection questionnaire! Please note the following conditions of this service.
Candidates can use the questionnaire to submit content to Ballotpedia. The questionnaire must be submitted by the actual candidate or a qualified campaign representative. We must verify that the person submitting the questionnaire is the actual candidate or qualified campaign representative. We verify candidate identities with the Truepic Vision mobile app, with which we have partnered. You can read more about that here.
When using the mobile app, candidates are requested to upload a picture of their photo ID. We accept driver’s licenses, passports, military IDs, student IDs, employee IDs, or tribal IDs. In order to ensure we can access the information if needed, the ID will remain stored on a secure server for six months after the November general election in a given cycle. After that time, the ID will be deleted from the server.
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Photo submissions
Are you a reader wondering how you can contribute to the accessibility of political information? We are always in need of candidate photos! If you find an article in need of a photo, you do us a great service by emailing us a photo that we can use.
Guidelines
- Photos must be of the correct candidate
- Photos must be a headshot showing only one person
- The candidate's face must be clearly visible and unobstructed
- The candidate must be fully clothed
- Photo must not contain any words or symbols that distract from the candidate
- Photo must be in color
- Photo must be recent (ideally less than two years old)
- Must be an actual photo without any filters or edits (other than cropping or resizing)
- File name must correspond to the name of the person
- File format must be a .png, .jpeg, or .jpg
- Photo must be 2MB or less
- Ballotpedia retains editorial discretion over which photos are uploaded
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