{
  "version": 1,
  "status": "research_questions_not_live_kits",
  "geographies": [
    "state",
    "county",
    "official precinct",
    "electoral district",
    "city where officially published or defensibly aggregated"
  ],
  "questions": [
    {
      "id": "civic-registration",
      "question": "How many registered voters are reported, and how does registration change between comparable official snapshots?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-turnout",
      "question": "What share of registered voters cast ballots in the same election, and how do alternative eligible-population denominators change the answer?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-participation-history",
      "question": "How does participation differ across comparable election types and years when district and precinct boundaries change?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-voting-methods",
      "question": "How do mail, early in-person and election-day voting shares vary using the election authority's definitions?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-provisional-ballots",
      "question": "How many provisional or rejected ballots are reported, and which published reasons and resolution categories are comparable?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-voting-access",
      "question": "Where are official voting locations, what are their published hours, and what transport and accessibility information is actually documented?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-ballot-measures",
      "question": "What did certified ballot-measure results show, and what funding, implementation dates and jurisdiction did the measure actually specify?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-district-boundaries",
      "question": "Which official precinct, district and municipal boundaries applied to this election, and what crosswalk supports any geographic comparison?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-population-context",
      "question": "How do turnout and registration patterns sit alongside separately sourced housing, work, education, age and transportation context without inferring an individual's behavior?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-administration",
      "question": "How do election staffing, equipment, service volume and published costs compare using compatible election-administration records?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-rural-urban",
      "question": "What differences appear across documented rural, suburban and urban definitions, and how sensitive are they to the chosen classification?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    },
    {
      "id": "civic-international",
      "question": "Which official election commissions publish comparable aggregate participation and results, and how do eligibility and voting systems differ?",
      "status": "source_qualification_required",
      "answer_verified": false
    }
  ],
  "source_priorities": [
    {
      "publisher": "State and local election authorities",
      "role": "official registration snapshots, canvasses, certification, precinct maps and polling-location records"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "US Election Assistance Commission",
      "url": "https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data",
      "role": "election administration survey and definitions"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "US Census Bureau",
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/voting-rights/cvap.html",
      "role": "citizen voting-age population estimates, geography and uncertainty"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "California Secretary of State",
      "url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections",
      "role": "California registration, official results and certification"
    },
    {
      "publisher": "NPR and verified regional public-radio reporting",
      "role": "story context and question discovery, with links and dates; not official certification"
    }
  ],
  "quality_rules": [
    "Use only published aggregate records. Do not acquire personal voter files, names, addresses, individual party histories or inferred individual political preferences.",
    "Declare election date, publication date, certification status, geography vintage, ballot universe and denominator for every statistic.",
    "Registered voters, voting-age population, citizen voting-age population and voting-eligible population are different denominators. Do not substitute or relabel them.",
    "Election-night reporting and preliminary results remain provisional until the relevant official certification.",
    "ZIP areas are not precincts. Do not downscale county turnout to a ZIP or create city totals from intersecting precincts without a documented allocation method and limitations.",
    "Preserve publisher suppression, uncertainty and source definitions. Do not reverse-engineer suppressed cells.",
    "Cross-layer associations are descriptive research leads, not proof of causes or individual voting behavior.",
    "Keep certified result records separate from news commentary and proposed policy effects."
  ]
}