Complete your basic Candidate profile
Review and maintain the Candidate-controlled information available through your profile.
CivicCause includes public Candidate profiles as part of our election coverage, helping residents understand who is running, what office they are seeking, and how Candidates connect to the issues shaping their communities.
If CivicCause already has a Candidate profile for you, you can claim it and manage your basic Candidate presence at no cost.
Your Candidate profile is part of CivicCause's public election information. Claiming it gives you a verified way to manage the Candidate-controlled information CivicCause supports while keeping your profile current and useful to residents.
After your claim is reviewed and approved, you can:
Review and maintain the Candidate-controlled information available through your profile.
Keep the information you control current while CivicCause maintains source-backed election information such as your office and election context.
Access the tools provided for onboarding and basic Candidate profile management.
Your basic Candidate profile remains available at no cost.
Candidate Participation adds the same deeper civic monitoring and intelligence capabilities available through CivicCause's professional platform, packaged for your election.
CivicCause unifies relevant alerts across fragmented City and County systems and surfaces locally relevant State legislation, so you don’t miss opportunities to participate while they still count.
Candidate Participation is optional. It is not required to claim or maintain your basic Candidate profile.
Candidate Participation helps you follow the public decisions, issues, organizations, and legislation shaping the communities in which you are running.
Follow civic activity across fragmented City and County systems without manually checking each source.
See California legislation with local relevance alongside the causes and civic activity already connected through CivicCause.
Connect your candidacy to causes and tracked issues and stay current as related civic activity develops.
Surface relevant public civic activity connected to the causes and issues associated with your candidacy.
Move from an alert to the underlying meetings, issues, organizations, legislation, and other connected CivicCause information when you need deeper context.
Candidate Signals are generated by CivicCause from civic information. They are not campaign posts, advertisements, Candidate rankings, or promotional placements.
The purpose is to provide civic context—not campaign automation, voter targeting, or persuasion tools.
CivicCause brings Candidate information into the same civic landscape residents already use to follow issues, meetings, organizations, public leaders, and elections.
Depending on the information connected to your profile, residents can understand:
Candidate Participation is offered according to the level of office you are seeking.
For city council and local races.
For county-level offices.
For school, judicial, and special-district races.
For state-level offices.
For federal and national races.
CivicCause creates Candidate profiles as part of its election coverage. If your profile already exists, you can request access through the Candidate claim process.
Select your ballot level, office, and Candidate profile, sign in or create your CivicCause account, and submit your claim for review.