Cicero is a legislative district boundary and elected official web API that matches citizens with their local, state, and national representatives by tapping into a massive database of voting district maps and information about politicians, legislative bodies, and election events.

The Cicero team has launched dozens of projects and tools designed to help voters understand our current political landscape:

• A Gerrymandering Study in the United States, using Avencia's Gerrymandering Index.
  

• An Analysis of in-district vs. out-of-district campaign donations for MAPLight.org, showing the connection between money, geography and politics.
  

• Data for an Election Day lookup tool that provides users with constantly updated vote tallies, and Comcast's Your Local Politics website.
  

• Tools to quickly generate hundreds of canvassing maps that pinpoint likely voters and supervoters in each precinct in order to help grassroots campaigns hit the ground running.

• The DecisionTree web-based geographic planning and prioritization tool to run a prototype Elections and Advocacy application to unable campaigns to prioritize canvassing and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts based on a selection of over 30 weighted electoral indicators.

• A real-time interactive web application that displays maps of election day incidents and violations as they are reported, Avencia worked with the Committee of Seventy on November 4th, tracking election-day incidents— everything from voter intimidation to faulty equipment— at polling places throughout Philadelphia County (home of Avencia’s main office).
  

As Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once famously declared, “All politics is local.” At Avencia, we are committed to developing solutions that enable local groups to make democracy work better.