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Find Legislators based on location

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Description

[Note: we are re-opening this older ticket that was never actually tackled. We currently refer users to the legislature's "find my legislator" webpage (see below), but we'd prefer to keep the user on our site].

We'd like to build our own tool that allows users to find their legislators (because the state's version is mediocre and slow)
State version: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

ActonMass has a good version: https://actonmass.org/legislator-search
And here's their github (look at "findmyreps") - https://github.com/actonmass/actonmass.org

Older Figma:
![Screen Shot 2023-03-29 at 2 52 57 AM](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/53629007/228450491-4d3efc9d-229b-4fee-87c1-a9b73b5ec96c.png)
Build find your legislators tool on edit profile page to allow users to find legislators based on their address

NOTE: Can we create this feature but not actually save and store the users' geographic data (address)? We'd prefer to avoid that.

Another potentially useful resource:
https://github.com/openstates/openstates-geo

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