Docs: true entity counts — 37,667 records across five types
README and roadmap had drifted two syncs behind reality: 10,390 jurisdictions (incl. 6,824 state legislative districts), 13,329 people, 11,221 legal sections. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## What's in here today
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19,721 markdown records, every one schema-validated:
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37,667 markdown records, every one schema-validated:
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| Entity | Count | What it is |
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| **Person** | 13,329 | Current officeholders — federal, all 50 state legislatures, and Florida down to the municipal level. Federal members carry their bioguide ID, leadership roles, and committee seats. |
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| **Body** | 233 | The institutions themselves — the U.S. House, the Senate, 49 committees, 181 subcommittees, each with its leadership. |
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| **Candidate** | 2,494 | Everyone running for federal office in 2026, from FEC filings. |
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| **Jurisdiction** | 3,494 | Every U.S. county (3,131) and 363 congressional districts, each carrying Census demographics — the nationwide skeleton, filled with data. |
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| **LegalText** | 171 | U.S. Code Title 52, Voting and Elections, mirrored from the official OLRC XML release current through Public Law 119-100. |
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| **Jurisdiction** | 10,390 | Every U.S. county (3,131), all 435 congressional districts (Census demographics on 363), and every state legislative district — 4,927 house, 1,897 senate — the nationwide skeleton, filled with data. |
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| **LegalText** | 11,221 | U.S. Code Titles 1–11 and 52 — General Provisions through Bankruptcy, plus Voting and Elections — mirrored section-by-section from the official OLRC XML release current through Public Law 119-100. |
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The mirror answers, with receipts: *who holds power, who runs the institution, who's running, what each place is made of,* and now *what legal text governs elections* — and, through git, *what changed.*
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The mirror answers, with receipts: *who holds power, who runs the institution, who's running, what each place is made of,* and *what the law says* — and, through git, *what changed.*
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## How it works
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```bash
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make build # regenerate the entity tree from the raw exports
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make legal-us-code # regenerate the U.S. Code Title 52 legal corpus seed
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make legal-us-code # regenerate the U.S. Code legal corpus (TITLES="1 2 ..." overridable)
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make validate # OKF + schema + link-integrity checks on all records
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make changelog # what changed in the government since the last commit
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make board # rebuild the Board's inlined data from the tree
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