How AEP works
AEP is not an election authority, does not determine voter eligibility, and does not accept ballots. For official confirmation, verify with the responsible election authority.
AEP uses official election sources, human review and versioned publication records. Automated source checks can flag a change, but they cannot change a verified fact or publish new election information on their own.
Constitutional rule
Help citizens know when, where, and how they may participate and understand what they are being asked to decide. Never decide what they should decide.
Human-reviewed trust workflow
- Identify the authority responsible for the fact type.
- Preserve or reference the authoritative source according to applicable terms.
- Perform human-reviewed extraction.
- Create a normalized fact with a risk classification.
- Verify the fact against reviewed evidence.
- Generate a versioned publication only from verified facts.
Civic area matching
A submitted address is used only to resolve political divisions. AEP then maps returned civic identifiers to its own verified jurisdiction records and evaluates declared AEP coverage separately. Civic resolution never creates an eligibility determination. City membership also never implies that a district-specific municipal contest applies. District-scoped publications require a separately human-verified applicability rule and a positive identifier match.
Official-source observation
Bounded machine observation can detect that an approved official source changed or became unavailable. A machine observation is not reviewed evidence, cannot change a verified fact, and cannot publish. Human review remains required before evidence, facts, or publication versions change.
Human review and official source last machine-checked are deliberately separate timestamps.