About
What this site is, and isn’t.
The mission
In under ten seconds on a phone, a Dover resident should be able to see who represents them, what their government is deciding this week, and what it has decided before — with every claim backed by a link to the primary source document.
What it is
An independent civic-transparency project for Dover, New Hampshire. Data is gathered from public sources (dover.nh.gov, SAU 11, NH General Court, Strafford County, and NH Secretary of State) and normalized into a consistent format. Nothing is behind a paywall.
What it is not
Not a government site. Not affiliated with the City of Dover, SAU 11, or any candidate or party. Not a replacement for the official meeting record — when there’s ever a discrepancy, the official record wins.
Methodology
- Meeting agendas and minutes are parsed from dover.nh.gov packets the morning they’re posted.
- Vendor names are normalized with fuzzy matching and cross- referenced to NH Secretary of State entity records when possible.
- Bids below the council-approval threshold may not be complete in this dataset; the threshold is flagged on the bids page.
- Cooperative and state-contract purchases (which don’t compete locally) are labeled distinctly from competitive bids.
- Representative voting records currently count roll-call votes only; voice votes are excluded because they aren’t individually attributable in the official record.
Corrections
Found an error? Please email us with the URL of the page and a link to the primary source. We fix errors fast and log every correction publicly.