[6][7] Ballotpedia is sponsored by the Lucy Burns Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Middleton, Wisconsin.

"[9] The website "provides information on initiative supporters and opponents, financial reports, litigation news, status updates, poll numbers, and more.

"[10] It originally was a "community-contributed web site, modeled after Wikipedia" which is now edited by paid staff.

"[11] Ballotpedia is sponsored by the Lucy Burns Institute (LBI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan[12][13] educational organization.

[31][32][33] According to its original website, the goal of Judgepedia was "to help readers discover and learn useful information about the court systems and judiciary in the United States.

[43] In 2012, Ballotpedia authored a study analyzing the quality of official state voter guides based on six criteria.

[12] In May 2014, the Center for American Progress used Ballotpedia data to analyze the immigration policy stances of Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 2017, with a sample of 27 issues from nine states, the group determined that, on average, ballot descriptions required a graduate-level education to understand the complex wording of issues, with the average American adult only reading at a 7th to 8th grade reading level.

A Georgia State University analysis of 1,200 ballot measures over a decade showed that voters were more likely to skip complex issues altogether.