Research notes
Each note takes one question, answers it from primary filings, and publishes the limits of the data alongside the finding. Every figure is traceable to a public record.
03 NOV 2026
The referendum that lost, and the $1.69 million raised to pass it
Orange County asked voters for a penny on the sales tax — about $600 million a year for twenty years. A committee raised $1.69 million to pass it; eleven engineering firms put in $220,000. Voters said no.
03 NOV 2026
The money, the lobbying and the votes in one Florida county
26,307 public records across Lee County's elected government and the Florida state committee system. Two private firms sit at the centre of almost all of it — lawfully, and on the record.
Further county maps are in preparation. The Institute publishes only when a finding is fully sourced and its limits are stated.