Help verify the record

A roll call is the only record of how each member voted, and the pipeline is worst at exactly this: the answers are single words, often half a second long. Below are the meetings losing the most votes — the clerk reads a name, no answer is captured, and the vote vanishes. Watching one roll call recovers every name in it at once.

Across the archive 18,683 names were called in a roll call and 16,752 had an answer captured, leaving 1,931 with no response recorded. 401 meetings are missing at least one.

Speakers are matched across meetings by voice, and a few labels have absorbed more than one person — the same name attached to recordings that do not sound alike. Each link below is the longest such stretch in a body that person has no role in. Naming one voice can settle years of that committee’s transcripts.

461 clusters across 42 bodies. Worst affected: CC Zoning Board of Appeals (52); CC Charter Study Committee (41); CC Community Development Board (40); CC Historical Commission (39).

Meetings are published by several outlets, so duplicates are common and mostly harmless — a full meeting beside short clips of it. A real duplicate is two recordings of similar length on the same date, and it splits a meeting’s readers and search results across two pages. Open both and tell us which to keep.

A mistyped date in a video title moves a meeting to the wrong day and stops it matching its agenda. Eleven were corrected in September 2026 using four checks — a missing agenda, the wrong weekday, who was present, and the resolution numbers cited. These two resist all four.

• City Council — titled 1/7/25

  Uploaded 7 January 2026, a year after the date it claims, and no council meeting took place that day. Two other January meetings titled “–25” proved to be 2026.

• City Council — titled 08/01/25

  A Friday, and this council has met on a Tuesday 92–100% of the time every year since 2011. Also only 195 seconds long.

Some gaps are not transcription errors and cannot be fixed by reprocessing: a microphone that was off, a vote taken by voice with no names spoken, a meeting nobody recorded. If you know how a particular vote went — from the posted minutes, or from being in the room — that is information the recording does not contain.