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Sending electronic written messages to members of Congress by reverse engineering their contact forms.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 3 stories, 3 comments · first 2014-04-16 · latest 2017-01-28

Mentions per year 6 mentions · busiest year 2014 (3)
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    Contact Congress: An open data format for U.S. Congress contact forms
    story by cobralibre · 2017-01-28 · 0 comments
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    Sending e-mails to Congressmembers by reverse engineering their contact forms
    story by danso · 2015-08-15 · 0 comments
  3. …by about 100 volunteers who chipped in. The dataset is called contact-congress, and is online here: https://github.com/unitedstates/contact-congress Then we had to create a system to fill in the forms based on the dataset. The system we…
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    Hack congress for fun and influence... (EFF's open congress project)
    story by mr_spothawk · 2014-04-16 · 0 comments
  5. …and realize there are a few grammatical errors, any help fixing them would be really appreciated. https://github.com/unitedstates/contact-congress/tree/gh-pag...
  6. …part are at this link: http://theunitedstates.io/contact-congress/ And here is the Github repo: https://github.com/unitedstates/contact-congress/