Staff Desk

Governance & NIST AI RMF Card

Election officials can read this system's limits in under a minute and share the same record with the public.

No-Go Zones

✕ Never decides voter eligibility

Registration status, felony restoration, and citizenship determinations are made by humans under A.R.S. Title 16. The AI cannot read or score a voter record.

✕ Never verifies signatures

Early-ballot affidavit signature comparison stays with trained county staff and the statutory cure process. No model output is used as evidence.

✕ Never touches tabulation

Nothing here connects to voting equipment, tabulators, or the election management system. The portal runs on separate, non-air-gapped office infrastructure only.

✕ Never publishes without a human

Every counter-message and public bulletin requires a named official to approve it. Drafts expire unpublished by default.

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

GOVERN

Who is responsible?

The county Elections Director owns every published output; the portal logs the approving human by name and timestamp.

MAP

Who is affected?

Arizona voters (incl. Diné-speaking and Spanish-speaking voters), county staff, poll workers, and candidates named in flagged material.

MEASURE

How will you test?

Red-team mailers with known ground truth, translation review by certified translators, and false-positive tracking on synthetic-media flags.

MANAGE

What will you change?

Confidence thresholds, mandatory legal review for any statute citation, and a kill switch that reverts the Truth Hub to static county guidance.

Human-in-the-loop record

  • • Every response stores the approving official's name and timestamp.
  • • Diné bizaad text requires certified translator review.
  • • Statute citations await county attorney review.
  • • Nothing publishes automatically.

Known limitations

  • • Synthetic-media detection is probabilistic; it is a triage signal, not evidence.
  • • Model knowledge can lag statutory changes; officials confirm against the current Elections Procedures Manual.
  • • Machine translation can miss Diné dialect and regional usage.
  • • This prototype stores demo bulletins in this browser only.