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Find Legislators based on location
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[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:

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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