All issues are editable by any member of the site, just go to the actual page of the issue and you will see an edit button on the top right of the page. We also show who the top editors for the wiki pages are, so there are no hidden moderators.

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We get out money data directly from the FEC. You're correct that Ron Paul's money data seems to be incorrect. I took a quick look to try to figure out the cause. It appears there's a discrepancy at the FEC with Ron Paul's summary report , which shows what most consider an accurate $2,364,328.41 from individual contributions (box 17-A). However, the actual sum of the 2,454 individual contributions his campaign reported between 4/1/07 and 6/30/07 for the same 17-A box totals only $1,286,589. We've been using the sum of the individual contributions, which is why Ron Paul's total amount doesn't appear to be as high. To be honest, I'm not sure which is correct. The money section is not editable by users because there's nothing really to edit. All the data is provided by the FEC -- we just slice and dice it in different ways for presentation. On the rest of the site, user's provide all of our content. You can see on any page who has edited the page. Incidentally, do you work for Congresspedia? I saw you commented on one of the Digg articles pointing at our site.

We get out money data directly from the FEC. You're correct that Ron Paul's money data seems to be incorrect. I took a quick look to try to figure out the cause. It appears there's a discrepancy at the FEC with Ron Paul's summary report , which shows what most consider an accurate $2,364,328.41 from individual contributions (box 17-A). However, the actual sum of the 2,454 individual contributions his campaign reported between 4/1/07 and 6/30/07 for the same 17-A box totals only $1,286,589. We've been using the sum of the individual contributions, which is why Ron Paul's total amount doesn't appear to be as high. To be honest, I'm not sure which is correct.

The money section is not editable by users because there's nothing really to edit. All the data is provided by the FEC -- we just slice and dice it in different ways for presentation. On the rest of the site, user's provide all of our content. You can see on any page who has edited the page.

Incidentally, do you work for Congresspedia? I saw you commented on one of the Digg articles pointing at our site.

Chowda: We only import data directly from the FEC. There's no manual intervention involved in this process. We want to treat all candidates identically in our representation of their finances. Once the the campaigns submit the data to the FEC, we'll add it to the site.

Chowda: We only import data directly from the FEC. There's no manual intervention involved in this process. We want to treat all candidates identically in our representation of their finances. Once the the campaigns submit the data to the FEC, we'll add it to the site.

argash says:

"Andy It looks like you recognize that their is a discrepancy, is their any way for you guys to fix the problem?"

FEC data for the latest quarter comes out next week (supposedly the 15th). We'll recalculate our data and see where the FEC ends up at that point. In general though, reporting of campaign finances seems sketchy at best.

argash says:

"Andy It looks like you recognize that their is a discrepancy, is their any way for you guys to fix the problem?"

FEC data for the latest quarter comes out next week (supposedly the 15th). We'll recalculate our data and see where the FEC ends up at that point. In general though, reporting of campaign finances seems sketchy at best.

I talked with the FEC this morning -- they claim they use the numbers that the campaign sends to them. You'd think that they'd actually do some validation or something. Anyway, they referred us to the Ron Paul campaign directly. We put a call into the campaign and are awaiting a callback. We'll keep everyone up to date on this.

I talked with the FEC this morning -- they claim they use the numbers that the campaign sends to them. You'd think that they'd actually do some validation or something. Anyway, they referred us to the Ron Paul campaign directly. We put a call into the campaign and are awaiting a callback. We'll keep everyone up to date on this.

Nope I do not work for Congresspedia. I just think they are a better site because the candidates views are not presented by an extremely biased "editor" like on this shady site.

Nope I do not work for Congresspedia.

I just think they are a better site because the candidates views are not presented by an extremely biased "editor" like on this shady site.