{"actors":["Public boards, commissions, councils, and multimember adjudicative bodies","Appointment, ethics, and records officers","Members, alternates, delegates, and temporary officeholders","Clerks who record attendance, recusals, motions, and votes","Inspectors general, auditors, courts, and legislative oversight bodies","Parties and members of the public affected by governmental decisions"],"affected_objective":"Reproduce which people were authorized, eligible, present, recused, delegated, and counted toward quorum for a specified governmental decision at the time it was taken and according to the evidence then recorded.","arm":"ORDINARY_DIVERSE_P2","authority_safety":{"authorized_first_step":"A records team may create a read-only shadow ledger from already-public records for one completed decision of a multimember public body and compare its projections with the certified minutes and existing authority records.","decision_authority":"Only constitutionally, statutorily, or institutionally designated officials and review bodies may appoint, remove, delegate authority, determine conflicts, rule on recusals, certify quorum, ratify acts, or invalidate decisions; the ledger records evidence of those acts and does not decide their legal effect.","excluded_actions":["Do not use the pilot projection to seat or remove an official, determine a conflict, establish quorum, invalidate a vote, or alter a certified decision.","Do not infer authorization, impartiality, consent, or legal validity from attendance or event sequence alone.","Do not ingest sealed ethics advice, privileged deliberations, protected personnel records, or unnecessary personal information.","Do not silently merge similarly named officeholders, offices, bodies, delegations, or proceedings.","Do not patch eligibility, quorum, or participation projections directly; disputed changes must enter through sourced event assertions or adjudication records.","Do not automate consequential conflict-of-interest or due-process determinations left to authorized human decision-makers."],"halt_rollback":"Halt if identity uncertainty could change the projected quorum or vote, a consequential authority event lacks a source, replay differs under the pinned projector, protected information cannot be excluded, or users could mistake the shadow view for an official validity determination; withdraw all derived views, retain only the permitted source crosswalk and error log, and leave certified records unchanged."},"baseline":"Current membership rosters, appointment instruments, delegation memoranda, ethics disclosures, recusal records, attendance sheets, meeting minutes, and vote certifications are maintained separately. Reviewers manually reconstruct the authorized composition of a body for a past decision, and later roster changes or corrected minutes may obscure what was documented at the decision time.","candidate_id":"event_log_centered_modeling__law_governance__ORDINARY_DIVERSE_P2","causal_chain":["A public body's decision-making authority depends on a changing combination of appointments, terms, vacancies, suspensions, delegations, recusals, substitutions, attendance, quorum rulings, and votes.","Those changes are recorded in separate roster, ethics, personnel, and meeting systems whose current-state fields answer different questions and can be updated independently.","The separation prevents a certified outcome from reliably showing which authority and eligibility conditions were documented when participation occurred.","The intervention records each bounded authority or participation assertion with stable identities, explicit roles, governing body and matter context, event time, record time, provenance, transformation, status, and uncertainty.","Linked correction and adjudication events preserve amended minutes, withdrawn recusals, disputed delegations, and identity resolutions without erasing earlier knowledge states.","Pinned projectors apply declared term, delegation, conflict, substitution, quorum, and vote-counting rules to produce decision-time authority, eligibility, attendance, quorum, and participation views.","Frontiers and completeness statements expose unprocessed sources, unresolved identities, missing recusals, contested authority, and the distinction between documented absence and absence in fact.","Replay-and-diff checks reveal when a roster, quorum certificate, or participation view has drifted from the accepted history, directing review to source evidence or projector rules rather than an editable status field.","Authorized reviewers can inspect the evidentiary path behind a projected composition while retaining responsibility for legal conclusions about authority, conflicts, due process, and validity."],"cell_id":"event_log_centered_modeling__law_governance","consequence":"A public decision may be implemented or challenged without a reproducible account of whether the documented decision-makers held the relevant authority, were eligible to participate, satisfied quorum, and cast the votes attributed to them, complicating review, explanation, and any lawful remedy.","diversity_from_prior_proposals":"The sealed P1 concerns changes in the asserted legal force of an administrative rule. This opportunity instead concerns the event-time composition and participation authority of the governmental body making a particular decision; its intervention models officeholding, delegation, recusal, attendance, quorum, and voting events rather than legal-status changes to normative instruments.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","intervention":"Create a governed bitemporal decision-authority event ledger for one multimember public body. Treat appointment, qualification, term commencement or expiration, vacancy, suspension, delegation, substitution, conflict disclosure, recusal, recusal ruling, attendance, departure, quorum determination, motion, vote, certification, correction, ratification, and authorized review as typed event assertions. Derive versioned decision-time projections of officeholding, delegated scope, matter-specific eligibility, attendance, quorum, and recorded participation, with visible provenance, projector version, frontier, uncertainty, conflicts, and coverage limits.","mechanism_mapping":[{"counterfactual_removal":"Without append-only history, a changed roster, corrected minute, or later conflict ruling can erase the composition and knowledge state documented when the decision occurred.","mechanism_slug":"append_only_event_store","role":"Preserves sourced authority, eligibility, attendance, and participation assertions together with linked corrections and adjudications."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without dual time, the period when an appointment, delegation, recusal, or vacancy purportedly applied is conflated with when it was reported, entered, corrected, or reviewed.","mechanism_slug":"bitemporal_event_register","role":"Separates the asserted effective time of authority and participation events from their institutional record and correction times."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without trajectory reconstruction, a current roster cannot show the sequence of roles through which a person became authorized, substituted, recused, absent, or eligible for the specific matter.","mechanism_slug":"entity_trajectory_projection","role":"Reconstructs each officeholder's body membership, delegated scope, matter-specific eligibility, attendance interval, and recorded participation from role-bearing events."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without governed projections, membership, eligibility, quorum, and vote records remain separate conclusions that can apply inconsistent temporal or counting rules.","mechanism_slug":"event_sourced_projection","role":"Derives decision-specific authority, eligible-member, attendance, quorum, and vote-participation views under pinned rules."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without evidence-aware reconciliation, conflicting minutes, appointment instruments, ethics records, and witness reports may be prematurely collapsed into one account.","mechanism_slug":"provenance_weighted_event_reconciliation","role":"Keeps competing assertions distinct and exposes their sources and statuses until an authorized correction or adjudication resolves them."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without rebuild comparison, manual roster edits or undocumented quorum adjustments can persist unnoticed in derived decision records.","mechanism_slug":"projection_rebuild_and_diff","role":"Recomputes the decision-time composition from canonical events and compares it with certified minutes, rosters, and quorum or vote records using declared invariants."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without frontier and coverage disclosure, a projection missing a resignation, recusal, late-filed delegation, or corrected attendance record may appear complete.","mechanism_slug":"projection_frontier_dashboard","role":"Displays processed sources, record-time frontier, unresolved identity or authority conflicts, failed imports, and known completeness limits."}],"nearest_rivals":["Certified meeting minutes with attendance, recusal, and vote annotations","A current board or commission membership roster","An appointment and delegation register","An ethics disclosure and recusal case-management system","A meeting-management system with quorum and electronic voting records","A conventional document archive or audit trail linking personnel and meeting files"],"negative_tests":{"intervention_falsifier":"The intervention is falsified for the pilot if independent replay of the same accepted events and pinned projector produces different authority, eligibility, quorum, or participation views, or if reviewers must introduce unrecorded state edits to match the certified record at selected checkpoints.","problem_falsifier":"The problem is falsified for the selected decision if one governed authoritative record already reproduces officeholding, delegated scope, matter-specific recusals, attendance intervals, quorum, votes, corrections, provenance, and the decision-time knowledge state without cross-system reconciliation.","risks":["A projection may be mistaken for a binding determination that a decision was valid or invalid.","Projector rules may encode a contested interpretation of appointment terms, delegation scope, recusal consequences, quorum, abstention, or ratification.","Identity-resolution errors may join different officials, offices, bodies, or proceedings and alter a projected quorum or vote.","Sensitive ethics, personnel, health, or security information could be retained beyond the minimum needed to represent an authorized event.","Recorded recusals or allegations may stigmatize people after correction or resolution.","Unrecorded informal influence may remain invisible while the formal event record appears complete.","A computational ordering choice may be presented as proof that an authority change preceded participation.","Late-filed or corrected records may change a historical projection after parties relied on an earlier account.","Detailed participation histories may enable surveillance or retaliation against officials or members of the public."],"strongest_counterevidence":"Certified minutes, appointment registers, ethics determinations, and voting systems may already supply a complete, source-linked account for the selected decision; any residual dispute may concern substantive legal interpretation or credibility that an event model cannot resolve."},"next_evidence_step":"Choose one completed public-board decision involving at least one membership change, delegation, substitution, recusal, or corrected attendance entry. From public records only, encode no more than 35 event assertions and pin one projector specification. Have two reviewers independently reconstruct officeholding, eligibility, attendance, quorum, and recorded votes at three preselected event-time and record-time checkpoints; compare the results with certified minutes and appointment records, log missing or disputed evidence, and stop without operational use.","observable_state":"For a completed decision of a public board or commission, the current roster, appointment instruments, ethics or recusal records, attendance records, and certified minutes can identify different subsets of relevant officials. A reviewer cannot reproduce the documented authority, eligibility, quorum, and participation state at the decision checkpoint without manually ordering and reconciling those records.","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","problem":"The authority and eligible composition of a governmental decision body changes through appointments, vacancies, delegations, substitutions, conflicts, recusals, attendance changes, and quorum rulings. These facts are commonly stored as mutable rosters or disconnected matter records, so the final decision record may not preserve a replayable account of who was authorized and eligible at each consequential step or what evidence was available when quorum and participation were certified.","proposal_index":2,"remaining_contrastive_claim":"The structural claim remaining for examination is that membership rosters, certified minutes, ethics files, appointment registers, and voting audit trails can each retain relevant facts, but a decision-authority event substrate uniquely makes their bounded authority and participation assertions canonical while treating every officeholding, eligibility, quorum, and vote view as a frontier-visible projection that can be discarded and rebuilt.","revision_record":{"claim_changes":["Initial candidate; no claim of novelty, prevalence, demand, or effect size."],"conceptual_changes":["Initial formulation of governmental decision-body composition as an event-time authority, eligibility, and participation reconstruction problem."],"evidence_changes":["No external evidence reviewed; prior art remains unsearched."],"operational_changes":["Defined a read-only pilot limited to one completed decision, public records, no more than 35 event assertions, and no operational or legal use."],"parent_version":null,"progress_targets_addressed":["Independent problem, intervention, and causal path distinct from the sealed P1","Concrete affected objective, actors, observable state, and consequence","Archetype-preserving event and projection structure","Mechanism mappings with counterfactual removal tests","Authority boundaries, privacy safeguards, and halt conditions","Problem and intervention falsifiers","Bounded next evidence step"]},"schema_version":1,"structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"Canonical event assertion","domain_realization":"A typed assertion about appointment, qualification, vacancy, delegation, substitution, conflict disclosure, recusal, attendance, quorum, motion, vote, certification, correction, ratification, or review, carrying stable identity, participant roles, body and matter context, event time, record time, provenance, transformation, uncertainty, and status."},{"archetype_element":"Stable event and participant identity","domain_realization":"Source-scoped identifiers distinguish officeholders, offices, seats, appointing authorities, bodies, meetings, agenda matters, motions, and votes while preserving uncertain matches, successor offices, and temporary substitutions."},{"archetype_element":"Participant–role binding","domain_realization":"Each event distinguishes appointer, appointee, delegator, delegate, member, alternate, disclosing official, recused participant, presiding officer, clerk, mover, voter, reviewer, and affected party rather than treating all named people as equivalent participants."},{"archetype_element":"Event time and record time","domain_realization":"The asserted start or end of authority, eligibility, attendance, or recusal is represented separately from filing, minute approval, correction, certification, and later review dates."},{"archetype_element":"Explicit ordering and concurrency","domain_realization":"Authority-effective order, meeting sequence, source-local filing order, and computational tie-breaks are declared separately; uncertain effective times and simultaneous participation changes remain partially ordered."},{"archetype_element":"Correction and adjudication lineage","domain_realization":"Corrected minutes, withdrawn or expanded recusals, disputed delegations, identity resolutions, ratifications, and review findings link to prior assertions without silently replacing the record previously available."},{"archetype_element":"Versioned projection definition","domain_realization":"Each officeholding, delegation-scope, matter-eligibility, attendance, quorum, or vote-participation view declares included event types, temporal axis, identity and counting rules, treatment of disputes, projector version, and output contract."},{"archetype_element":"Projection frontier and completeness statement","domain_realization":"Each view discloses processed appointment, ethics, and meeting sources; latest record time; unresolved authority or identity conflicts; excluded protected records; and whether absence reflects documented nonparticipation or missing evidence."},{"archetype_element":"Replay and reconciliation","domain_realization":"A pinned projector rebuilds the decision-time body composition and compares it with certified minutes, rosters, and vote records using invariants for seat occupancy, delegation scope, recusal exclusion, quorum arithmetic, and preserved prior knowledge states."},{"archetype_element":"Retention, redaction, and access governance","domain_realization":"The ledger retains only authority-relevant public facts for the pilot; protected ethics advice, personnel details, and unnecessary personal data remain excluded, and any governed correction or redaction propagates to projections, indexes, and snapshots."}],"title":"Decision-Authority Event Ledger for Public-Body Quorum and Participation","version":0}