[cachemiss]

I've considered something like that, but instead of trying to figure out crimes, it would produce a score for bills.

A corruption score for bills, almost like a facebook for bills "This bill is friends with Exxon". It would figure out who spent the most getting the bill passed, and who they bought off to get it.

Just a simple thing for people to point to when they say things are corrupt. Granted in today's environment, that score would be 100% most of the time, but it would be interesting to have some idea just who bought the bill.

[smt88]

Some of the coding-friendly news orgs like ProPublica have done one-off versions of this. It'd be great to have an ongoing tool to check the scores at any time.