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It records evidence and authority references throughout the event lifecycle; it is not an election execution engine.", "in_scope": [ "Event identity, jurisdiction profile, calendar and competent-authority references", "Election-specific electorate, candidacy, campaign and finance-disclosure context", "Ballot definitions, channel and accessibility context, secrecy constraints and ballot accounting", "Scoped counts, allocation evidence, declaration, review effects and controlled release history" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Person, party, office, jurisdiction and register master lifecycles", "Vote casting infrastructure, ballot adjudication, eligibility determination, enforcement and legal certification", "Campaign persuasion and targeting, party accounting and private-body voting", "Referendum-only events; mixed-ballot question contests are linked components", "Generic access-audit machinery, court case procedure and cryptographic voting implementation" ], "boundary_notes": [ { "neighbor": "Process template", "distinction": "Election is a called occurrence, not a reusable election procedure or a report document.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ] }, { "neighbor": "Person and electorate register", "distinction": "Election references authorized roll and person masters; legacy P1 alias is rejected as an identifier binding.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003" ] }, { "neighbor": "Public Office", "distinction": "Outcome and office accession are separate; authority references do not execute a mandate grant.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-003", "SRC-007" ] }, { "neighbor": "Referendum and private voting", "distinction": "Office-election scope is frozen; co-occurring question contests may be linked, but referendum-only and private votes require separate reviewed profiles.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-003", "SRC-005" ] }, { "neighbor": "Audit and dispute cases", "distinction": "Election retains effects and evidence references; review methodology, litigation and access-audit execution remain external.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-004", "SRC-007" ] } ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "SRC-001", "title": "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 25", "organization": "United Nations human rights office", "url": "https://2covenants.ohchr.org/About-ICCPR.html", "version_or_date": "1966 treaty; Article 25; application requires jurisdiction review", "source_type": "legislation", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-06T15:35:02Z", "relevance": "Rights baseline for participation, suffrage and secret voting; not a domestic election code." }, { "id": "SRC-002", "title": "Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters", "organization": "Council of Europe Venice Commission", "url": "https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?pdffile=CDL-AD(2002)023rev2-cor-e", "version_or_date": "CDL-AD(2002)023rev2-cor; 2002 guidelines and explanatory report", "source_type": "public-authority", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-06T15:35:02Z", "relevance": "Sections I.1-I.4 and II.3 ground eligibility, nomination, electoral administration, observation and appeals as regional good practice." }, { "id": "SRC-003", "title": "Election Results Common Data Format Specification", "organization": "National Institute of Standards and Technology", "url": "https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927308", "version_or_date": "SP 1500-100 Revision 2.0; November 2019 PDF; landing page dated December 2019", "source_type": "schema", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-06T15:35:02Z", "relevance": "Sections 5.9 and 5.12-5.15, contest and reporting-unit classes support conceptual distinctions among election, contest, reporting geography, counts and report status. 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Retiring a local record neither annuls an election nor permits deletion of externally held evidence.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-004", "SRC-007" ], "questions": [ { "id": "record-disposition-q-1", "text": "Which election-record category, appeal hold and retention authority govern this artifact?", "kind": "retention", "answer_data": [ "record-disposition-data-1", "Retention binding: category, applicable schedule, hold reference, custodian and review date" ] }, { "id": "record-disposition-q-2", "text": "Which record supersedes a retired election projection while keeping required references resolvable?", "kind": "lifecycle", "answer_data": [ "record-disposition-data-2", "Retirement lineage: retired identifier, successor, reason and minimal lawful tombstone" ] }, { "id": "record-disposition-q-3", "text": "Which personal payload may be erased or restricted after authorized disposition without retaining it in a public history?", "kind": "privacy", "answer_data": [ "record-disposition-data-3", "Disposition evidence: payload scope, decision authority, external execution reference and residual-copy review" ] } ], "data_elements": [ { "id": "record-disposition-data-1", "name": "Retention binding", "description": "category, applicable schedule, hold reference, custodian and review date Record unknown, disputed and not-applicable explicitly; do not replace unknown with zero or false.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "0..1", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-004", "SRC-007" ] }, { "id": "record-disposition-data-2", "name": "Retirement lineage", "description": "retired identifier, successor, reason and minimal lawful tombstone Record unknown, disputed and not-applicable explicitly; do not replace unknown with zero or false.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "0..1", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-004", "SRC-007" ] }, { "id": "record-disposition-data-3", "name": "Disposition evidence", "description": "payload scope, decision authority, external execution reference and residual-copy review Record unknown, disputed and not-applicable explicitly; do not replace unknown with zero or false.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "0..1", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-004", "SRC-007" ] } ], "artifacts": [ { "id": "record-disposition-artifact", "name": "Disposition decision reference", "description": "Election-scoped evidence or reference record for record history and disposition. 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Reference authorized retention or retirement decisions.", "inputs": [ "Schedule and hold references", "Disposition decision", "Artifact revision" ], "outputs": [ "Local disposition status", "Minimal successor or tombstone reference", "Refusal or unresolved-evidence report" ], "preconditions": [ "Authorized local role, purpose and access scope", "Current record revision and pinned jurisdiction profile", "Custodian review and appeal holds resolved or explicitly retained" ], "effects": [ "Records proposed or externally confirmed disposition; does not delete ballots or source systems", "No external master mutation or legally effective election action; correction uses a new local revision" ], "source_refs": [ "SRC-004", "SRC-007" ] } ], "composition": [ { "target": "WM-PER-001", "relation": "REFERENCE", "purpose": "Candidate and authorized electorate subject identities remain in Person. Legacy P1 is not a safe identifier mapping. 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Version binding pending.", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-003", "SRC-007" ] }, { "target": "WM-POL-013", "relation": "REFERENCE", "purpose": "Registry Mandate may supply registration authority evidence; no automatic inference of legal competence and no import of its governance lifecycle.", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002" ] }, { "target": "WM-POL-015", "relation": "REFERENCE", "purpose": "Jurisdiction supplies external jurisdiction identity; electoral geography and reporting-area crosswalks remain election-specific references.", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ] }, { "target": "WM-ACT-033", "relation": "REFERENCE", "purpose": "Review / Inspection / Audit may hold external assessments; election keeps only scope, conclusion and limitations. No audit execution semantics imported.", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-004", "SRC-007" ] }, { "target": "WM-XCT-004", "relation": "REFERENCE", "purpose": "Access Audit is a candidate for access evidence only. The legacy broad audit-trail mixin cannot transfer counting-audit ownership to this narrower neighbor.", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-004" ] }, { "target": "NIST SP 1500-100 Revision 2.0", "relation": "ALIGN", "purpose": "Conceptual alignment of election, contest, reporting unit, count and report status; executable mappings and conformance tests remain open.", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-003" ] }, { "target": "EAC VVSG 2.0", "relation": "ALIGN", "purpose": "Selected privacy, accessibility and auditability considerations within US voting-equipment scope; no certification or blanket global adoption.", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-004" ] } ], "serviceLayers": { "dimension": { "owner_package_requirements": [ "Name the accountable electoral record steward and evidence of its limited authority", "Pin election namespace, profile versions and external master bindings", "Declare legal applicability, secrecy boundary, retention policy and release reviewer", "Preserve all provider, source and conformance holds" ], "namespace_guidance": "Use a governed election namespace with separate IDs for event, round, contest, candidacy, report and revision. Dates are attributes, never identifiers; isolate private registration references from ballot evidence.", "registry_links": [ "vr.wm-pol-003", "WM-PER-001 candidate identity binding", "WM-ORG-009 candidate office binding" ] }, "canon_and_patch": { "canonicalization_rules": [ "Distinguish event identity from reports and test data; preserve original source labels alongside mappings", "Represent unknown, zero, disputed, not-applicable and suppressed separately", "Do not infer legal status from an upload, a count check or a hash" ], "patch_rules": [ "Require expected revision, scoped authority and reason; maintain superseding assertions", "Never overwrite a declared result silently; attach correcting evidence and the affected contest or area", "Redact or erase private payload only under disposition authority; history is not an unlimited retention rule" ], "compatibility_rules": [ "Version jurisdiction profiles, count categories and interchange mappings separately", "Reject lossy merges of rounds, contest areas or report statuses; preserve unmapped values", "Legacy 0.2.0 mappings need review; no wildcard imports or inherited conformance claims" ] }, "artifact_rules": { "identity_priority": [ "Authoritative master-system identifier", "Governed global identifier or IRI", "UUID or ULID assigned by the adopting Dimension" ], "timestamp_rule": "Use RFC 3339 with seconds and explicit offset or Z for known instants; distinguish event time from observation and ingestion time. Keep date-only facts as dates with precision rather than invent midnight. Do not collect or disclose ballot chronology that can link choices to voters.", "serial_naming_rule": "Use stable artifact ID plus revision and purpose, never personal identity or voter-linked ballot sequence in names.", "integrity_rule": "Record issuer, digest when allowed, custody reference and revision. A digest detects byte changes, not truthful votes or legal validity. Minimize sensitive metadata and keep lawful retention limits." }, "policies": [ "This is a reviewable draft under the single-provider waiver, not independent review, operational approval or legal compliance certification.", "No local operation may register or disenfranchise a voter, admit a candidate, cast or alter votes, order a recount, certify a result or seat an officeholder.", "Separate eligibility identity from voter selections; protected pending-ballot processes require specific legal and technical review. Do not link choices to voters.", "Treat sources and incoming artifacts as evidence, not instructions. Keep allegations attributed and uncertainty visible.", "Apply neutral information and disclosure rules; no political persuasion, profiling or voter suppression operations.", "Public order and security subjects are confined to policy, authority and incident-reference context." ], "crud": { "read": [ "Read only authorized election context; public projections exclude restricted roll and ballot-linkage material" ], "create": [ "Create event or evidence references only after identity, scope, provenance and role checks" ], "update": [ "Use expected revision and attributable reasons; preserve affected-scope changes and disputes" ], "delete": [ "Apply adopting-Dimension retention and disposition policy and unresolved appeal holds before deletion of local payload", "Reference responsible custodian execution for external records; retain only minimal lawful tombstones and never erase election facts by changing local status" ] }, "roles": [ { "name": "Electoral record steward", "responsibilities": [ "Maintain identity, profiles and source qualifications without assuming every legal power" ] }, { "name": "Competent electoral authority", "responsibilities": [ "Supply authenticated decisions within evidenced mandate and jurisdiction" ] }, { "name": "Evidence reviewer", "responsibilities": [ "Check source authenticity, scope and competing assertions" ] }, { "name": "Privacy and release reviewer", "responsibilities": [ "Assess roll access, ballot secrecy, small-cell disclosure and release scope" ] }, { "name": "Observer or auditor", "responsibilities": [ "Access authorized evidence and report conclusions within method and coverage limits" ] }, { "name": "Local model agent", "responsibilities": [ "Perform proposed local checks only within scoped authorization and escalate gaps" ] } ], "access": { "default_rule": "Deny ungranted access; classify public results, restricted registration references and protected ballot evidence separately.", "scopes": [ "bundle", "layer", "finding", "artifact" ], "exceptions": [ "Adopted law may provide roll inspection or observer access; record the exact audience, purpose and fields instead of a global privacy veto", "A subject-access route must never reveal another voter or connect a person to selections", "Emergency access requires evidenced authority and does not waive ballot secrecy" ], "audit_requirements": [ "Record requester role, purpose, scope, authorization and disposition; reference the external audit master", "Do not log ballot selections together with voter identity or reconstructable casting order", "Apply lawful retention and privacy limits to access logs themselves" ] }, "agents_bootstrap": { "filename": "AGENTS.md", "required_fields": [ "Name", "Type", "Specification URL", "Storage type URL", "Interface URL", "Processes URL" ], "read_order": [ "AGENTS.md", "spec.yaml and publication holds", "Dimension policies and pinned jurisdiction profile", "Master identities, source evidence and authorized views" ] } }, "coverage": { "claim": "Source-grounded proposed context for one called public office-election event, its contests, participation records, ballot context, count evidence, outcome assertions and review references. Separate frozen local no-tools self-audit completed. This noncanonical reviewable draft does not establish current legal applicability, election-system assurance or executable instance conformance.", "confidence": "medium", "checklist": [ { "dimension": "identity", "status": "covered", "notes": "Covered by event-identity and separate report and artifact IDs." }, { "dimension": "lifecycle", "status": "covered", "notes": "Called, changed, canceled and repeated events preserve related identities; declarations and appeals are scoped." }, { "dimension": "relationships", "status": "covered", "notes": "Candidate Person, Office, Jurisdiction and review references are optional bindings awaiting pinning." }, { "dimension": "temporal", "status": "covered", "notes": "Rule and calendar profile distinguishes dates, instants, deadlines and evidence observation." }, { "dimension": "provenance", "status": "covered", "notes": "Count revisions, authority instruments and release manifests record sources and uncertainty." }, { "dimension": "ownership", "status": "covered", "notes": "Stewardship differs from legal competence and external master ownership." }, { "dimension": "validation", "status": "gap", "notes": "Structural research checks covered; instance conformance and legal-profile validation remain gaps." }, { "dimension": "access", "status": "covered", "notes": "Audience-specific roll, observer and result access with secrecy review." }, { "dimension": "retention and deletion", "status": "covered", "notes": "Disposition references respect appeal holds; no universal permanent retention." }, { "dimension": "interoperability", "status": "gap", "notes": "NIST conceptual alignment only; executable mappings are an explicit gap." }, { "dimension": "direct properties", "status": "covered", "notes": "Class, jurisdiction, stage, schedule and contest membership apply; root has no physical mass or dimensions." }, { "dimension": "recognition and observation", "status": "covered", "notes": "Call evidence, source authenticity, test status and observations remain separate." }, { "dimension": "capabilities and actions", "status": "covered", "notes": "Six proposed local functions with authority preconditions and refusal outcomes; none operates an election." }, { "dimension": "electoral inclusion", "status": "covered", "notes": "Qualification rules, challenges and channel accessibility evidence covered; 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no global conformance is inferred.", "No universal winner formula, voting channel, roll-inspection audience, deadline or retention duration is asserted." ], "adversarial_checks": [ "Date collisions, cancellation and repeat rounds must not collapse distinct election identities.", "A zero count must not substitute for unknown or suppressed data; overlapping reporting scopes must not be summed.", "A public report or hashed record cannot establish legal declaration, absence of fraud or office accession.", "Ballot metadata and small totals can breach secrecy even without a direct person field; pending-ballot profiles need separate review.", "Legacy P1 and S4 references must resolve by subject semantics; no inherited wildcard conformance." ] }, "researchAdjudication": { "providerMode": "single-provider-waiver", "activeProviders": [ "codex" ], "waivedProviders": [ "claude", "grok" ], "providerPolicy": { "contract_version": "1.0.0", "mode": "single-provider-waiver", "effective_at": "2026-09-06T00:00:00Z", "scope": "Canonical single-stream subject-model research after the six-workstream consolidation", "active_providers": [ "codex" ], "waived_providers": [ { "provider": "claude", "authorized_by": "repository owner", "authorized_at": "2026-09-06T00:00:00Z", "reason": "Claude produced no result on prior 1800-second and 900-second attempts and again timed out on bounded 600-second Sonnet and 300-second Haiku passes. The owner prioritized completion over provider availability." }, { "provider": "grok", "authorized_by": "repository owner", "authorized_at": "2026-09-06T00:00:00Z", "reason": "The repository owner authorized completion without Grok when Grok is unavailable, slow or schema-invalid. Grok may still be attempted as a bounded supplemental reviewer, but its failure never blocks a valid Claude plus no-tools result." } ], "review_rule": "Codex may complete source-grounded fallback research after bounded Claude and Grok attempts fail. It requires a separate no-tools adversarial audit and remains reviewable-draft with a visible absence-of-external-review hold.", "supplemental_provider_attempts": [ { "provider": "claude", "required": false, "maximum_attempts": 1, "failure_policy": "record-and-continue", "admission_rule": "Use only a locally schema-valid result whose sources and boundaries survive adjudication." }, { "provider": "grok", "required": false, "maximum_attempts": 1, "failure_policy": "record-and-continue", "admission_rule": "Use only a locally schema-valid result whose sources and boundaries survive adjudication." } ] }, "boundaryDecision": { "entry_kind": "event", "status": "accepted", "rationale": "The root denotes one called electoral occurrence with scoped rounds, contests and evolving evidence. A report document, reusable process template and persistent public-office master are separate subjects. The registry standalone-mm classification is not the research entry-kind enum; the legacy title does not override this explicit office-election boundary." }, "decisions": [ { "concept": "Called event boundary", "disposition": "accepted", "rationale": "Identity and lifecycle questions preserve one occurrence through schedule and evidence revisions while related rounds and repeated elections remain explicit." }, { "concept": "Referendum and private voting", "disposition": "bounded", "rationale": "The frozen office-election boundary excludes referendum-only and private-body votes while permitting referenced question contests on a mixed ballot; no universal collective-vote scope is implied." }, { "concept": "Legal competence and subject ownership", "disposition": "separated", "rationale": "Record stewardship and a candidate mandate binding do not establish public authority; supplied decisions and external master lifecycles remain separately evidenced." }, { "concept": "Franchise, register and candidacy", "disposition": "accepted with profile qualification", "rationale": "Questions ask for actual eligibility, nomination, correction and review rules. Local functions cannot determine entitlement or alter an authoritative roll." }, { "concept": "Campaign conditions and finance", "disposition": "accepted at evidence level", "rationale": "Campaign concerns remain attributed assertions; finance declarations and oversight findings are distinct. Accounting, persuasion and sanctions remain outside the model." }, { "concept": "Ballot secrecy and pending ballots", "disposition": "qualified", "rationale": "No exposed voter-choice association is admitted. Protected eligibility handling is a separately reviewed profile, and metadata, ordering and small-total release risks remain explicit." }, { "concept": "Roll access and public disclosure", "disposition": "qualified", "rationale": "Default denial is subject to specific lawful inspection and observer rights. Audience, purpose and fields must be evidenced rather than inferred from public-election status." }, { "concept": "Count scope and arithmetic", "disposition": "accepted", "rationale": "Units, disjointness assumptions, reporting scopes and unknown values qualify count checks. Neither a consistent sum nor a digest certifies validity or absence of irregularity." }, { "concept": "Allocation, declaration and accession", "disposition": "separated", "rationale": "Rule-dependent allocation evidence does not automatically become a legal result or office grant. Authority, appeals, affected scope and external office records remain separate." }, { "concept": "Observation, audit and remedies", "disposition": "bounded", "rationale": "The model records external assessment limitations and decision effects; it does not own review methods, complaint adjudication or access-audit execution." }, { "concept": "Legacy aliases and imports", "disposition": "reconciled", "rationale": "The person reference is resolved by meaning, not the ambiguous P1 alias. S4 is limited to Access Audit. Unverified wildcard EML and Popolo imports and conformance labels are deferred." }, { "concept": "Local functions and disposition", "disposition": "accepted as proposed only", "rationale": "All six unimplemented functions require authority and revision checks and can refuse unresolved input. They neither run elections nor erase external evidence; retention is not universally permanent." }, { "concept": "Typed schemas and executable conformance", "disposition": "deferred", "rationale": "Candidate answer objects and conceptual standard alignments provide a research structure, not an executable operational election schema, allocation engine or certified system." }, { "concept": "Source assurance and independent review", "disposition": "held", "rationale": "Seven primary documents were accessible through browser text for selected review. Direct HTTP was not attempted, current applicability remains unverified, and local Codex self-audit is not independent second-provider review." } ], "publicationHolds": [ "Independent external review is absent. Claude and Grok were skipped with zero attempts under the owner-authorized single-provider waiver; the separate local Codex no-tools self-audit is not an independent provider review.", "Live source and version verification remains incomplete. Seven sources were accessed through browser text for selected claim review; no direct HTTP requests were attempted under the owner-reported sandbox restriction. No HTTP status or response hash was measured. The coordinator must run check_sources.py and separately review currency, versions and substantive support.", "Qualified jurisdiction-profile review is required for treaty applicability, legal competence, franchise, nomination, channels, deadlines, campaign rules, allocation, declaration, challenges, secrecy, accessibility, disclosure, licensing and retention. No operational legal or election-system approval is claimed.", "Nested instance schemas, version-pinned neighbor bindings, lossless interchange mappings, executable conformance and adversarial fixtures remain incomplete. Legacy imports are deferred. No voting-system certification, counting implementation or runtime integration is claimed.", "Independent external review was explicitly waived by the repository owner; this codex-only result remains a reviewable draft." ], "deferredResearch": [ "Review applicable current national rules and source versions, including public indirect elections and jurisdiction-specific pending-ballot secrecy controls.", "Develop typed schemas and fixtures for mixed ballots, overlapping reporting areas, partial counts, ties, repeated rounds, disputed declarations, small-cell disclosure and lawful disposal.", "Verify and pin neighbor and interchange mappings, including a separate decision on the unverified legacy EML and Popolo imports.", "Restore independent external review and close source and profile holds before canonical promotion." ] }, "statistics": { "sources": 7, "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 20, "questions": 60, "artifacts": 20, "functions": 6 } }