Scorecards and whip counts

Two different questions about legislators, and it is worth keeping them apart: a scorecard is a record of how somebody has voted, and a whip count is your estimate of how they will vote.

The scorecard

Open a list and choose Scorecard. It reads the roll calls the Legislature published for the bills on that list and lays out every member against them.

A few things worth knowing before you quote one to a client:

• A bill with no floor vote contributes nothing. Most bills die in committee and never reach the floor, so a scorecard over a ten-bill list may rest on three roll calls. The count is shown.
• Absent is not a position. A member who was excused is not scored as having voted either way.
• It uses your positions. A member "with you" is one who voted the way your stance on that bill says. Bills you have taken no position on are not scored.

You can pick the bills a scorecard covers rather than using the whole list, which is how you produce "here is how the delegation voted on our four priorities" instead of a table nobody reads.

Export it as a document or a spreadsheet, or add it to a client report.

The whip count

A whip count is yours. Open a bill and choose Whip count, then mark each member as you learn where they are: yes, no, leaning, undecided. Nothing is inferred and nothing is filled in for you. An empty whip count is an honest one.

The totals update as you go, so the question a whip count answers ("do we have the votes, and who is left to work") is on the screen rather than in your head.

Sharing either one

Both can be shared with your workspace, which is the point of building one during session: the person in the hearing and the person at the desk are looking at the same count. Only the person who made it can share it, an admin can already see everything, and publishing a colleague's private count to the whole team is a different decision from being able to read it.

Last updated September 2, 2026.