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The project began as a research project

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at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)

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in Mexico in order to measure and evaluate

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the productivity, or to design metrics of legislative activity

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The project has two fundamental goals.

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One, from the academic point of view

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to create metrics that are increasingly sophisticated

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such as, for example, the behavior of the party

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the index of how they vote

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the average of legislative proposals

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the daily activities of the Congress which must be analyzed

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and for all of this we are creating increasingly

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sophisticated indicators as we're able to.

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And this is all targeted toward academia.

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The other part of the project which is more social

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which we hope to quickly expand upon.

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Is that, in the first place, citizens are able to

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get to know who are their representatives.

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This we do via the web page

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It can be done with their electoral ID number

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The Mexican electoral card has a section number

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which represents their voting district

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or their ballot box

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So they just have to enter this number and their state

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and the website shows them their senators

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and who is their deputy (representative).

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They can also find the information by searching

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for their neighborhood or postal code.

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Almost all of this information we obtain from official

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sources. The reason is very simple.

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It is so that the politicians cannot, as has happened

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, complain about information that appears on the website

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and say, for example, "I did go to this session"

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We have the official documentation to say to them

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"well look, here it says that you simply did not attend."

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We use official documentation for attendance,

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voting records, and legislative proposals.

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In the only case where we add additional information

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is in the creation of their profiles.