== 0.3.1 2010-06-19

* 2 major enhancements:
  * Add Candidate.get_by_zip, District.get_by_zip, Election.get_by_zip and Official.get_by_zip (dwillis)
  * Add Official.get_statewide (empact)

== 0.3.0 2010-03-25

* 3 major enhancement:
  * Rename the project/gem to just 'votesmart'
  * Move http access to Patron for performance
  * Add retry logic on HTTP failure, with exponential backoff

* 2 minor enhancements:
  * Add Official#party to reflect the PVS officeParties data
  * Sig descriptions:
    * sometimes included UTF control characters for punctuation, which are now translated to ascii
    * often started and ended in a quote, which is now avoided

* 1 bug fix:
  * Fix that Rating.get_sig_list would blow up on a bad parameter

== 0.0.1 2009-02-10

* 1 major enhancement:
  * Initial release