Election & Electoral Process
Electing officeholders: campaigns, ballots, results
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 0 findings · 0 questions
franchise Who may vote and who may stand
voterRoll
registration of eligible voters per roll
eligibility
qualification and disqualification rules
campaign The contest before voting day
nomination
candidacies and their validation
campaignFinance
declared funding and spending
ballot The act of voting
ballotDesign
questions, lists, candidate ordering
castingChannel
polling place, postal, assisted and other channels
count From ballots to mandates
tally
counting, recounts, invalid ballots
resultAndMandate
declared results and mandate grants
Note: Legacy card: layers named, findings and questions never written.
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- World Models
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- standalone-mm
- Navigation path
- NAV.SOC.POL.ELC
- Domain
- SOC.POL.ELC
- Industry
- Cross-industry
- Tags
- electionsoc.pol.elc
- Also called
- A13
What it is Derived, awaiting review
This meta-model describes how a polity chooses its officeholders: the franchise and voter rolls, candidacies and campaign finance, ballot design and casting channels, and the counting that turns ballots into declared results and mandate grants.
Note: First sentence of the legacy card introduction.
Why it exists Filled
Electing officeholders: campaigns, ballots, results
Distinguishing features Derived, awaiting review
- It is its own model because an election is a time-boxed, high-integrity process with secrecy constraints found nowhere else in the catalogue: cast ballots must aggregate into tallies without ever becoming linkable back to voters, while every counting step must still be auditable.
What robots and AI may and may not do Derived, awaiting review
Must not
- resultsBoard: declared results and allocations per constituency; omits roll data and individual ballots, which are never stored linkably
Moral aspects Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Owners Filled
Steward
An independent electoral registrar, holding its own A12 mandate, stewards this model.
Links to other meta-models Filled
references
- world.person - voters and candidates resolve to persons
- world.publicOffice - mandate grants seat elected offices defined there
- world.registryMandate - the electoral register operates under its own independent mandate
composes
- world.auditTrail - every roll change and count step is append-only and independently checkable
imports
- oasis-eml - ALIGN: election process and results interchange structure
- popolo - ALIGN: candidacies, posts and memberships for civic data consumers
requires
- vr.wm-org-009
- vr.wm-pol-013
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Incomplete
Identity and identifiers required Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Capabilities and actions required Derived, awaiting review
- electionCalled: an election was formally called with its dates and legal basis
- candidacyValidated: a nomination was checked and admitted to the ballot
- votingOpened: casting began through the authorized channels
- votingClosed: casting ended and counting became permissible
- tallyCompleted: a count for one ballot and constituency was finalized
- recountOrdered: a tally was reopened under the correction procedure
- resultDeclared: the outcome of a constituency was legally declared
- mandateGranted: a winner was certified and the corresponding office seat filled
Legacy events listed as state transitions.
Hazards and failure modes optional Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Standards and interfaces required Derived, awaiting review
- openResults: public access to declared results, tallies and turnout, permanently retained
- accreditedObserverAccess: process access for accredited observers to counting and casting-channel records
- voterRollExtract: restricted, purpose-bound extracts of the roll, granted by the electoral registrar under the access regime
- resultsBoard: declared results and allocations per constituency; omits roll data and individual ballots, which are never stored linkably
- turnoutStatistics: participation aggregates by area and channel; omits all person-level data
- mandateLedger: who received which mandate for which office and term; omits count detail
Context of use required Filled
- Results and statistics are public; voter rolls and channel records are graded, and any access beyond a person's view of their own registration is granted only by the registrar via S1 and S2.
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Open questions
- Superseded by a researched world model? Map this legacy card to its successor or retire it.
Machine files
Provenance
legacy MMAS card (world-models v0.2) · legacy
Built from: models/world-a13-election-and-electoral-process/spec.yaml, models/docs/polity/A13-election-and-electoral-process.md