{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:58:08Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0950c-6834-72f2-bc2d-04ac6cd37bd4\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: general ticket\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: INF.KNW\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 043: 1001 ", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 75.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0950c-682a-70d3-ada0-3ebb9723b6d4\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: general ticket\nRegistry id: vr.tr.general-ticket\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.KNW\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (no" } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:39:13+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T10:10:30+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q3476490", "registryId": "vr.tr.general-ticket", "name": "general ticket", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.KNW" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3476490/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.general-ticket", "name": "general ticket", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise general ticket electoral rules, assess whether their application is sufficiently specified, and explain how a collective vote determines a set of elected representatives.", "definition": "A general ticket is an electoral arrangement in which a constituency elects several representatives together, typically through a plurality vote for a party slate that awards all the constituency's seats to the winning slate.", "scope_statement": "This model owns vr.tr.general-ticket as an electoral method, provisionally interpreted as party block voting: a collective choice among candidate slates in a multi-member constituency with winner-take-all allocation; the registry's intended meaning and historical variants remain to be confirmed.", "in_scope": [ "Criteria identifying general ticket voting and distinguishing related electoral methods", "Constituency magnitude and the seats allocated together", "Slate composition and the extent of voter choice within a slate", "Vote aggregation, winning conditions and allocation of the contested seats", "Exceptions and evidence needed to assess a particular implementation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Admission tickets, transport tickets and support tickets", "Political parties as organisations and candidates as persons", "Complete election administration, voter registration and polling logistics", "Constituency boundary design and population apportionment", "Other electoral methods except for classification comparisons", "Political science as a discipline and its institutional classification" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The relevant contest fills multiple seats together; a single-seat plurality contest alone does not establish general ticket voting.", "The vote selects a party or team slate collectively; independently selecting candidates across slates indicates a different ballot mechanism.", "In the baseline party block vote, the leading slate receives all seats contested under that rule, rather than seats proportional to its vote share. [Elections Canada](https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?dir=eim%2Fissue1&document=p4&lang=e§ion=res)", "An at-large constituency describes the electoral geography and does not, by itself, establish that voters choose a collective ticket.", "A party-list ballot is insufficient evidence: the allocation rule must also distinguish winner-take-all voting from list proportional representation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Interpretation confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unconfirmed electoral meaning | confirmed party block vote | documented historical variant", "why_it_matters": "The registry supplies no definition, so the name alone cannot settle the intended concept." }, { "name": "Constituency magnitude", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "integer seats allocated together", "why_it_matters": "Identifies the size of the representative block awarded by the collective vote." }, { "name": "Ballot choice unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "whole slate | individual candidates | mixed | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Separates collective ticket selection from candidate-centred block voting." }, { "name": "Slate alteration rights", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "none | candidate deletion | substitution | cross-slate selection | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether voters accept an intact team and whether the baseline interpretation applies." }, { "name": "Winning condition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "plurality | specified majority | runoff condition | other documented rule | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assuming that the largest vote total always produces an immediate winner." }, { "name": "Seats awarded to the winning slate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "integer seats and percentage of seats governed by this rule", "why_it_matters": "Tests whether allocation is fully winner-take-all or requires classification as a variant." }, { "name": "Rule applicability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "jurisdiction, elected body, electoral tier, effective period and authoritative rule", "why_it_matters": "Connects a method description to the contests for which it can legitimately support an assessment." }, { "name": "Allocation readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "underspecified | ready to simulate | exceptional case unresolved | verified against recorded outcome", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an agent may calculate an allocation or must first obtain missing rules." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a documented contest as baseline general ticket voting, a named variant or a neighbouring method.", "Identify missing ballot, slate and allocation rules before calculating a result.", "Simulate seat allocation from supplied vote totals under an explicitly selected rule.", "Explain the difference between a slate's vote share and its share of the seats governed by the rule.", "Check a reported allocation against the applicable rule and flag unresolved exceptions." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain how a general ticket works and where it has been used, citing sources.", "Compare it with other electoral systems on stated criteria such as proportionality." ], "must_not": [ "Misstate how seats are allocated under a general ticket system.", "Help design district or slate rules intended to shut out a minority from representation.", "Present one electoral system as the only legitimate choice.", "Give voters wrong information about how to vote in a real election." ], "requires_human": [ "Recommending an electoral system for adoption by a real body." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Winner-takes-all slates can leave large minorities with no representatives.", "Electoral rules shape who holds power; misinformation can distort public choice." ], "affected_parties": [ "Voters", "Minority communities", "Candidates and parties" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the concept; electoral authorities apply the rules where it is used.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "A general ticket is used in elections where a constituency fills several seats through a collective contest that awards the seats to the winning slate.", "It is encountered in electoral history and comparative politics when examining representation, party competition and the effects of winner-take-all rules." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, establishes election and political participation rights in Article 25 that apply to public elections in states parties." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Winner-take-all allocation can leave substantial groups of voters without representation from their preferred slate.", "Concentrating all seats in one slate can produce a large mismatch between vote shares and seat shares.", "Unclear rules for slate eligibility, ties or vacancies can cause disputes over election results." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "An electoral arrangement is an abstract set of rules with no intrinsic visual appearance." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q3476490: general ticket", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3476490", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: General ticket", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_ticket", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "electoral-identity", "name": "Electoral identity", "description": "Establishes which electoral meaning the registry name denotes.", "rationale": "General ticket lacks a registry definition, and superficially similar electoral labels describe different mechanisms.", "layers": [ { "id": "term-resolution", "name": "Term resolution", "description": "Connects the registered name to a supported electoral concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-ticket-meaning", "name": "Intended ticket meaning", "description": "Treat party block voting as the working interpretation until the registry's originating record confirms its intended usage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which originating identifier or description establishes that general ticket denotes an electoral method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-ticket-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "Does that record define general ticket as party block voting or use a broader historical meaning?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-ticket-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-methods", "name": "Neighbouring methods", "description": "Tests mechanism boundaries rather than relying on labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "collective-choice-test", "name": "Collective choice test", "description": "Recognise the baseline through the combination of collective slate choice, multiple seats and a single winning slate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the ballot select an intact slate or independently selectable candidates?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "collective-choice-test-q01" }, { "text": "Are seats awarded to one slate or distributed among competing slates?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "collective-choice-test-q02" }, { "text": "Is at-large being used only to describe the constituency rather than the voting method?", "kind": "definition", "id": "collective-choice-test-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "seat-block-and-slates", "name": "Seat block and slates", "description": "Identifies the seats contested together and the candidate teams competing for them.", "rationale": "The consequences of a ticket victory depend on the block of seats and the slate authorised to fill it.", "layers": [ { "id": "allocation-unit", "name": "Allocation unit", "description": "Defines the constituency or electoral component governed by the ticket rule.", "findings": [ { "id": "jointly-contested-seats", "name": "Jointly contested seats", "description": "Record the exact seat block so that a constituency victory is not mistaken for control of every seat in the elected body.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many seats are allocated together by this ticket contest?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "jointly-contested-seats-q01" }, { "text": "Does the rule cover the whole elected body or only one constituency or tier?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "jointly-contested-seats-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "slate-constitution", "name": "Slate constitution", "description": "Records which candidate group constitutes each selectable ticket.", "findings": [ { "id": "eligible-candidate-team", "name": "Eligible candidate team", "description": "Require an explicit candidate roster and applicable team rules without assuming that every ticket must be sponsored by one party.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which candidates constitute the ticket at the relevant ballot deadline?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "eligible-candidate-team-q01" }, { "text": "Must each slate contain exactly as many eligible candidates as there are seats?", "kind": "definition", "id": "eligible-candidate-team-q02" }, { "text": "May coalitions or independent teams submit a ticket under the applicable rules?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "eligible-candidate-team-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-ballot", "name": "Collective ballot", "description": "Describes how a voter's mark becomes support for a candidate team.", "rationale": "A slate appearing on the ballot does not establish whether the voter actually casts a collective ticket vote.", "layers": [ { "id": "permitted-expression", "name": "Permitted expression", "description": "Captures the choices the ballot permits.", "findings": [ { "id": "slate-level-choice", "name": "Slate-level choice", "description": "The baseline party block vote uses a single party-centred choice without choosing between candidates. [International IDEA](https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/electoral-system-design-database)", "questions": [ { "text": "How many slate selections may one voter make in this contest?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "slate-level-choice-q01" }, { "text": "Can a voter delete, replace or separately prefer candidates within the selected slate?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "slate-level-choice-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "countable-ticket-votes", "name": "Countable ticket votes", "description": "Connects permitted ballot expressions to the slate totals used for allocation.", "findings": [ { "id": "ticket-vote-validity", "name": "Ticket vote validity", "description": "Separate countable slate support from blank, ambiguous or otherwise invalid ballots according to the documented contest rules.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ballot markings count as one valid vote for a particular slate?", "kind": "definition", "id": "ticket-vote-validity-q01" }, { "text": "How are multiple selections or altered candidate lists treated?", "kind": "action", "id": "ticket-vote-validity-q02" }, { "text": "Which recorded totals distinguish valid slate votes from excluded ballots?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "ticket-vote-validity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "winner-and-seat-award", "name": "Winner and seat award", "description": "Makes the conversion from slate totals to elected candidates explicit.", "rationale": "The model must distinguish an identifiable leading ticket from a result that the applicable rules actually permit declaring.", "layers": [ { "id": "winning-condition", "name": "Winning condition", "description": "Identifies the comparison and any threshold needed to select a winning slate.", "findings": [ { "id": "decisive-vote-comparison", "name": "Decisive vote comparison", "description": "Record the actual winning test, including any departure from the baseline plurality interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the highest valid slate total sufficient, or is a specified majority required?", "kind": "definition", "id": "decisive-vote-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "If a threshold applies, which ballots form its denominator?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "decisive-vote-comparison-q02" }, { "text": "What procedure applies if slates tie or no slate meets the required threshold?", "kind": "action", "id": "decisive-vote-comparison-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-seat-award", "name": "Collective seat award", "description": "Checks how the winning ticket fills the contested block.", "findings": [ { "id": "seat-block-completeness", "name": "Seat block completeness", "description": "Verify the winner's seat entitlement and identify any allocation exception before treating the contest as a pure general ticket implementation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the winning slate receive every seat in the allocation unit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "seat-block-completeness-q01" }, { "text": "Which nominated candidates are returned when the slate wins?", "kind": "action", "id": "seat-block-completeness-q02" }, { "text": "What rule applies if the winning slate has too few eligible candidates to fill its entitlement?", "kind": "action", "id": "seat-block-completeness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "application-and-assessment", "name": "Application and assessment", "description": "Controls evidence-based use of the method and interpretation of its results.", "rationale": "An agent needs to know when an allocation can be calculated and how far its conclusions about representation extend.", "layers": [ { "id": "applicable-rule-evidence", "name": "Applicable rule evidence", "description": "Binds the electoral mechanism to a documented jurisdiction and period.", "findings": [ { "id": "versioned-election-rule", "name": "Versioned election rule", "description": "Require evidence for the particular implementation rather than importing a generic description into every contest bearing the label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authoritative rule specifies ticket selection and seat allocation for this body and election date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "versioned-election-rule-q01" }, { "text": "Which amendments or special provisions alter the baseline mechanism?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "versioned-election-rule-q02" }, { "text": "Are the rules and vote totals complete enough to simulate allocation, or must the agent leave the outcome unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "versioned-election-rule-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-effects", "name": "Representation effects", "description": "Examines the relationship between ticket support and seats within the relevant allocation unit.", "findings": [ { "id": "vote-seat-comparison", "name": "Vote-seat comparison", "description": "Compare observed vote and seat shares while distinguishing the ticket-governed seat block from the composition of the entire elected body.", "questions": [ { "text": "What share of valid votes and of contested seats did each slate receive?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "vote-seat-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "Did the winning slate receive a majority of valid votes or only the largest share?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "vote-seat-comparison-q02" }, { "text": "Do seats allocated through other constituencies or methods limit conclusions about representation across the whole body?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "vote-seat-comparison-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The electoral meaning is inferred from the name; no recorded sense confirms it.", "Historical usage varies, so the voting and seat-allocation rules of a particular general-ticket election should be checked.", "The supplied domain code should be checked against the inferred electoral sense." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of general ticket this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Historical election of some United States congressional delegations statewide.", "Selection of presidential electors through statewide party slates in the United States." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of general ticket this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "A slate can win every seat without receiving a majority of votes.", "Substantial electoral minorities can receive no representation.", "Seat shares can differ sharply from vote shares." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of general ticket this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Historical American usage can include arrangements allowing votes for individual candidates; modern party block voting usually treats a slate as a single choice." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of general ticket this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "party block voting", "difference": "Party block voting specifically gives voters a choice among party slates; historical general-ticket arrangements do not always impose an indivisible slate." }, { "name": "plurality block voting", "difference": "Plurality block voting counts votes for individual candidates, allowing winners from different slates." }, { "name": "party-list proportional representation", "difference": "Proportional systems distribute seats among lists according to vote shares rather than awarding all seats to the leading slate." }, { "name": "at-large election", "difference": "At-large describes the geographic constituency and does not by itself specify how votes translate into seats." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of general ticket this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the originating registry record confirm the electoral meaning and synonymy with party block voting?", "Does this entry encompass historical general ticket practices allowing individual candidate selection, or only intact-slate voting?", "Should majority thresholds, runoffs and partial seat awards be treated as variants within this model or linked neighbouring methods?", "Which authoritative implementations establish the treatment of incomplete slates, candidate withdrawal, ties and unfilled seats?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this electoral concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it rather than become a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 15, "questions": 32 } }