This reviewer-facing page defines SMART-D details for the Democracy requirement group: Risk Management Requirements.
Phase Boundary: Requirements review only. Metrics scoring, report-card use, legislative mapping, issue grades, member grades, rollups, leaderboards, and action tools are disabled for this reviewer-facing page.
Red text = bad current value, bad trend, missing critical data, or unfavorable gap. Green text = favorable value or improving trend. Amber text = context-dependent, incomplete, or source-method review needed. Neutral/gray text = descriptive value that is not inherently good or bad.
| Requirement | Metric / Measurement | Top Countries / Sources | Value to the American People | Gap / Target / Timeframe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEM-RSK-001: Risk Management Requirements Requirement: The system shall identify metrics and evidence related to election interference, voter suppression, fraud claims, certification disruption, intimidation, and administrative failure. Verification: Risk metrics review, source registry. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate democratic-risk detection and mitigation indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Identifies democratic failure modes before they become normalized or misused. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-RSK-002: Risk Management Requirements Requirement: The system shall identify risks related to concentration of power, politicization of neutral institutions, corruption, retaliation against oversight, or weakening of independent checks. Verification: Institutional risk indicators, oversight source review. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate democratic-risk detection and mitigation indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Identifies democratic failure modes before they become normalized or misused. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-RSK-003: Risk Management Requirements Requirement: The system shall identify risks related to judicial intimidation, unequal enforcement, lack of due process, or public loss of confidence in legal institutions. Verification: Rule-of-law metric review. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate democratic-risk detection and mitigation indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Identifies democratic failure modes before they become normalized or misused. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-RSK-004: Risk Management Requirements Requirement: The system shall identify risks related to disinformation, loss of shared facts, false election claims, manipulation of public records, and inability of citizens to distinguish verified sources from propaganda. Verification: Source labeling review, information-risk metrics. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate democratic-risk detection and mitigation indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Identifies democratic failure modes before they become normalized or misused. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-RSK-005: Risk Management Requirements Requirement: The system shall reduce the risk that users misinterpret preliminary, incomplete, or low-confidence grades as final conclusions. Verification: Public label review, confidence label review. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate democratic-risk detection and mitigation indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Identifies democratic failure modes before they become normalized or misused. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |
| DEM-RSK-006: Risk Management Requirements Requirement: The system shall document scoring logic, data sources, weights, and review status to reduce perceived or actual partisan bias. Verification: Methodology review, evidence audit. Review Status: Draft / source-method review required |
Current Metric: Candidate democratic-risk detection and mitigation indicator set; source-method review required. Current Value: Not yet approved for scoring. Current Trend: Not yet approved for scoring. Automation Feasibility: To be assessed during metrics development. Trend Meaning: No trend should be interpreted until the source, formula, baseline period, and limitations are approved. |
Source-Method Review: Required Source families and approved datasets must be selected during source-method review before public scoring. Comparator Caution: Democracy comparators are useful for context but should not be treated as one-to-one targets without method review. |
Identifies democratic failure modes before they become normalized or misused. | Gap: No approved public baseline yet. Target: Approved requirement text, approved metric candidate, source registry entry, formula, limitations, update frequency, and review decision before scoring. Timeframe: Complete during requirements and metrics review before public report-card promotion. |