/know_your_legislators

Allows users to look up state legislators based on location by combining Google Maps API and Open State API.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

know_your_legislators

Know Your State Legislators is an web app that lets people find out who their state legislators are and how to contact them.

You can see it here: http://knowyourlegislators.surge.sh/

Know Your Legislators Front Page

Features/How-to-use

  1. Type in a city and a state or a zip code.
  2. Scroll down and see the state representatives for in the lower and upper legislative houses, unless you're in Nebraska, which has a unicameral legislature.
  3. Click the contact button to see their contact info, i.e. mailing address and phone number.
  4. Call them, because it's important to be involved in the political process.
  5. It's pretty straightforward, but here is a walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbsIzJZgGR8.

Technologies Used##

This app is purely front-end, and uses HTML5, CSS, Materialize framework, Javascript, jQuery, Google Maps API, and Open States API.