Cell 2aii · GWG Proposal
Hold One Honest Election Day Each August
GREEN WHITE GO MANIFESTO — 2026.10.01 · CANONICAL THREE-SENTENCE UNIT
Green White Go proposes one predictable national election day each August: annual electoral-service offices appear every year, longer-term directly elected offices appear only when their term, vacancy or recall requires, and voting remains paper-first and locally auditable with an authenticated signed record from every Polling Unit.
Candidates, observers, auditors and courts must be able to verify the original Polling-Unit record, which remains available for recount, audit and lawful challenge even where public-facing results from very small Polling Units are pooled to protect community-level political privacy; detailed security, transmission, authentication, recount and aggregation procedures belong in electoral legislation and the Electoral Policy Paper.
The purpose is to make democratic renewal regular and verifiable without pretending in advance that one annual election season guarantees lower cost, greater trust or any other outcome that must still be tested.
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The purpose is to make democratic renewal regular and verifiable without pretending in advance that one annual election season guarantees lower cost, greater trust or any other outcome that must still be tested.
Evidence and limits
Large-scale elections elsewhere do not establish the cost, speed or reliability of the annual August paper-first model. Signed records, audit access and privacy require their own specification.
The proposal remains distinct from current law and from evidence for individual components.
Evidence notes for this pillarRelated Hard Questions
No. A Polling Unit is an electoral community. Several units may use one authorised Polling Centre, while retaining separate registers, officers, ballots, counts and signed records. The model must still be tested for staffing, travel, accessibility and cost; the numerical band does not itself prove operational feasibility.
No. Annual electoral-service offices appear every year. Longer-term directly elected offices appear only when their lawful term, vacancy or recall requires them. The permanent professional Electoral Secretariat maintains logistics, records and institutional memory beneath the renewed electoral chain. An annual date does not make every term one year.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAIL
The annual sequence of votes, disputes, external-pool selections, certification and handover remains for the Electoral Administration Policy Specification.
The manifesto recognises that risk. Voting is paper-first and produces authenticated signed records for verification. Public-facing results should be pooled above the tiny Polling Unit where necessary, while original records remain available for recount, audit and lawful challenge. The design does not claim that its privacy solution has already been proved.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAIL
The Electoral Audit, Privacy & Results Policy Specification must reconcile custody, access, aggregation and onward disclosure.