The foundation’s blog reports, “In the course of writing scrapers for all 50 state legislatures, our Open States team and volunteers spent a lot of time looking at state legislative websites and struggling with the often inadequate information made available. Impossibly difficult to navigate sites, information going missing and gnarly PDFs of tabular data have become daily occurrences for those of us working on Open States. People are always curious to know how their state stacked up compared to others.”

The full report card gives Hawaii a “C,” praising us for making data permanently available to the public but dinging us for not making clear when legislators vote “yes” — meaning “State does not provide stand-alone roll call votes.”

—Chad Blair