Our commitment
If something we’ve published is factually wrong — a vote total, a riding boundary, an officeholder’s party, a miscalculated figure — we will correct it as soon as we’re able, and we will say so openly. We do not quietly edit mistakes out of existence.
What counts as a correction
- Factual errors — wrong numbers, names, dates, party affiliations, or riding details.
- Calculation errors — a mistake in how a weighting, aggregate, or projection was computed.
- Sourcing errors — a figure attributed to the wrong poll, pollster, or election result.
This policy covers factual accuracy. It does not cover disagreements with our editorial judgment, our choice of methodology, or which pollster credibility ratings we assign — those are analytical decisions, not errors, and we address disagreement about them through the transparency described on our Methodology page, not through corrections.
How corrections are made
- Article and post corrections: A dated note is added directly to the piece, stating what was wrong and what it now says. The original error is not deleted from the record — we show the correction, not just the result.
- Riding data and live figures: Where a correction affects a number shown on a riding page or in our tracker (a poll entry, a weighting, a projection), the figure is updated immediately, and — for anything more than a trivial fix — a note is added to that riding’s page indicating what changed and when.
- Significant errors: If a mistake meaningfully changed our reported standing in a riding or our analysis of a race, we will publish a short standalone note explaining what happened, not just fix it silently in place.
How to report a possible error
If you believe something on NorthVote705 is inaccurate, please contact us with:
- A link to the page or riding in question
- What you believe is incorrect
- A source or reasoning for the correction, if you have one
We read every report. Not every report will result in a change — sometimes we’ll explain why we believe the figure is correct as published — but every report gets a response.
Why we publish this at all
A correction is not an admission of failure; refusing to make one is. This policy exists so that our commitment to accuracy is something you can hold us to, not just something we say about ourselves.