Who Pays?

The donation data comes from the New York State Board of Elections reports. The donations include those filed for the current politicians and their committees from January 2017 through January 2022. The candidates included are those politicians that currently represent the five boroughs in the State Senate and Assembly, plus the majority leader of the senate, Andrea Stewart Cousins, and the four statewide positions: governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller, and attorney general.

The filing committees were compiled by searching for the policitians' names in the name of all of the filing committees that had ever filed. This is an imperfect search that is ongoing. Because of the lack of clarity about committees that are associated with the politicians, as well as the conservative nuture of the clustering of donors together, these numbers can be considered a 'minimum'. The donors were clustered across different candidates' filings with the dedupe python library: https://github.com/dedupeio/dedupe. Additional human review is ongoing. There are still different clusters within the dataset that should be considered the same 'donor', The intention is to continue to improve the mapping and naming of the linked donors.

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