I’m working on a little passion project, a dataset of political donations in Alaska that would be broken down by company, industry, donor location, and candidate. <\/p>\n
But campaign finance filings are very scattered and inconsistent. Some candidates over the years have reported via PDFs, others dump spreadsheets, and a few towns barely publish anything. I had more luck with the statewide Akorgs company register, which is good for data on who actually owns what, but it’s a small part of this “research”. <\/p>\n
I’ve also looked through municipality and state election sites manually, but I’m missing smaller local races or entities that don’t get flagged properly (especially Native corporations or smaller PACs). Ideally, I want a clean CSV or database where I can filter donors by SIC code or address.<\/p>\n
So, if anyone knows a (maybe free) consolidated repository by state, even just for some years, I’d appreciate it. Any other data sources or tools for this, including third-party aggregators, is also welcome. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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