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Every scored vote in the ledger is taken from the official roll call published by the Clerk of the House or the Senate (LIS). A checker also reads both every few minutes and compares them with the ledger; where they ever disagree, the ledger shows the official figure and the difference is listed below. Further down is every fix we have made to our own record, with dates.

To report an error, or to send a legal notice about anything we published, email hello@incumbent.vote with the page or post, the statement, and the official record you believe shows otherwise. We review every report within two business days and publish corrections on this page.

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Checker differences

Fixes we have made

  • Oct 27, 2026

    Independents measured against the party they caucus with

    Party-break and party-unity figures now measure independents against the party they caucus with; an independent who caucuses with neither is measured against the majority party. Previously, every independent was measured against the Democratic line.

    Rep. Kevin Kiley (CA-03), listed as an independent on the Clerk's rolls from March 19, 2026, is now measured against the Republican line: his office states that House rules required him to affiliate with the Republican Conference, as a formality, for the remainder of this term. On the roll calls this ledger scores, his figures go from 4 party breaks and 79% party unity to 1 party break and 95%. House roll 214 (Secure America Act) is now a party break, and rolls 306, 308, 310, and 311 no longer are.

    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Angus King (I-ME) caucus with the Democrats, so their figures are unchanged.

    Sources: Rep. Kiley’s office, Sep 2, 2026, Roll 214, Roll 306, Roll 308, Roll 310, Roll 311

  • Oct 22, 2026

    45 posts on X corrected

    Between Oct 8 and Oct 16, 2026, @Incumbentfacts posted 45 vote graphics built from estimated data rather than the official roll calls. Some showed wrong totals, and some showed party breaks or votes that did not happen. Each one was corrected with a reply in its own thread on Oct 22, 2026, and the original posts are being removed. Every corrected post is listed below under “Corrected posts on X”, with the official record for each.

  • Oct 21, 2026

    Party at the time of the vote

    Party-break and party-unity figures now compare each vote with the party the member belonged to on the day it was cast, as printed on the official roll. Rep. Kevin Kiley (CA-03) is listed as a Republican on the Clerk's rolls through March 18, 2026 and as an independent from March 19, 2026; measuring his earlier votes against his later party had added 8 “broke with party” flags that were wrong. They were removed on the evening of October 21, 2026 (Central time).

  • Oct 21, 2026

    Every position now comes from the official roll calls

    Until the afternoon of October 21, 2026, the ledger did not take positions for the 40 featured members from the official roll calls. Each position was filled in from a per-bill party default, with hand-entered exceptions, and a rule written into that code marked about 1 in 47 of the positions without an exception “Not Voting” regardless of the record. (For four bills dated August 2026 or later, the official positions replaced these only after the page loaded in a browser, and in downloads.) “Broke with party” flags and party-unity figures were measured against that party default, not against how the party actually voted. Some bill totals, dates, and bill numbers were also wrong, and one Senate entry (TAKE IT DOWN) showed member votes although the Senate passed it without a roll call.

    An audit that day compared 484 of those member positions with the House Clerk and Senate roll-call files: 87 positions did not match, and 35 more had a wrong “broke with party” flag.

    The fix reached the site in two steps the same afternoon, at 2:31 PM and 3:23 PM Central, when the two production deploys finished. Since then every position on the site, for every sitting member, is read from the official House Clerk or Senate roll-call XML, the party line is the actual majority of the member's party on that roll call, and a member who was not yet in office or not on a roll gets no vote instead of an invented one.

    Social-media posts, downloads, printed packs, and briefings made before that time may show wrong positions, tallies, missed votes, or party-break counts. Automatic posting to X is paused while every post is checked against the official rolls, and this page will list what we correct or remove.

Corrected posts on X

Between Oct 8 and Oct 16, 2026, @Incumbentfacts posted 45 vote graphics built from estimated data rather than the official roll calls. Each one was corrected with a reply in its own thread on Oct 22, 2026, and the original posts are being removed. Each entry below gives the date of the original post, the member, what the post said, what the official House Clerk or Senate roll calls show, and the correction. Totals cover the roll calls this ledger scores, not every vote the member has cast.