Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.
Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.
Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.
No documented broken promises on file.
Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.
Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.
A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.
https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-b001306Goblin House. "Troy Balderson — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-b001306.Sourced from public records and content-hashed; verify via /attestation, standard at /methodology.