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Roster Place labels are not silently converted to separate contests."}, {"url": "https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=509&code=BBB", "locator": "BBB(LOCAL): seven members, at-large plurality; three-year staggered terms; annual May elections."}, {"url": "https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=764&code=BBB", "locator": "BBB(LOCAL): three members, at-large plurality; three-year terms, one trustee elected each May."}, {"url": "https://pol.tasb.org/PolicyOnline/PolicyDetails?key=772&code=BBB", "locator": "BBB(LOCAL): seven members, at-large plurality; three-year terms; annual May elections. 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Pending records remain available to staff.", "Expected total elected positions remains unknown until every office kind and governing body is inventoried. Documented seats are lower bounds, including vacant and continuing seats.", "State totals deduplicate shared offices. County totals include overlapping offices and must not be added to estimate state totals.", "Official inventory percentage uses current, seat-matched terms with a verification date or explicit official Congress or reviewed-officeholder roster evidence attached to that term, never in the future, within documented capacity. Observed data never expire: every term counts at any observation age, and source_observations gives each source group's latest and oldest observation and a stale_since date once it is older than 30 days, when a refresh is due. Person and candidacy evidence cannot establish current terms. It measures the known inventory, not all elected positions. Conflicts and generic school memberships are excluded.", "Outside Texas, state legislators listed by Open States (CC0, not an official roster) count toward the state legislature capacity only through a reviewed Open States packet: its district offices share the NCSL total, and each term needs a packet record. Collected terms are kept at any age; source_observations gives their latest observation and a stale_since date once it is older than 30 days, when a refresh is due. Texas legislators come only from official sources.", "Outside Texas, governors, lieutenant governors, attorneys general, secretaries of state, treasurers and auditors are documented seats only where The Council of State Governments' Book of the States records the office as elected by the public (Table 4.10) and schedules its election (Table 6.1); appointed offices count zero. Their holders listed by Open States (CC0, not an official roster) count only through a reviewed executive packet term record, kept at any age with its observation date and stale_since indicator.", "Outside Texas, Minnesota and Missouri county offices are documented seats only where the official state roster (Minnesota Legislative Manual, Missouri Official Manual) marks the office as elected (a printed term-expiry year, or a printed party without the appointed star) and the title is on the reviewed elective list; appointed offices count zero. Their officers count only through a reviewed state-roster packet term record, kept at any age with its observation date and stale_since indicator.", "Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wisconsin county offices follow the same rule with each roster's own marker (Mississippi County Offices and Directory: the roster's County Elected Officials lists; Oklahoma 2024 Roster of State and County Officers: a printed party or the Associate District Judges list; Wisconsin Blue Book: a printed party, an appointee to an elected office, an elected county executive or a circuit judge's printed term); multi-county judges and prosecutors are outside county scope. The Oklahoma roster dates from the November 2024 election and Wisconsin's from April 2025; each term keeps that roster's observation date.", "Candidates are dated election records. Several candidates can seek one seat; their count is never divided by elected positions. Withdrawn/disqualified/lost/unknown records are excluded from the selected election coverage count.", "Candidate profiles on file additionally include unresolved statuses and historical outcomes for the selected election. They are not all confirmed active candidates; unknown-status counts are shown separately.", "Directory school memberships are shown separately because numbered seats and elected/appointed status are unresolved.", "Party county chairs and precinct chairs (Tex. Elec. Code ch. 171) are party offices, not government seats: they are counted only as party_office_terms, party_officer_profiles and county party_officers, and never as documented seats, official terms or county/local officials.", "Governing-power review holds retain documented elected capacity but contribute zero matched officials and are counted separately from occupant conflicts. Such holds never change stored term metadata or assume that appointed managers hold elected seats.", "Restricted landowner elections are elective positions with separately documented voter eligibility, not ordinary public-electorate seats. Public, restricted and unclassified selection subtotals partition documented capacity; missing legacy selection metadata remains unclassified. Eligibility rules describe the electorate and do not certify any listed person qualifies.", "Census government units are a research workload, not elected seats. Cross-county boundaries, local rosters, ballots, cancellations, vacancies and freshness still need review.", "No county or state is certified complete. Zero on file does not mean no offices or candidates exist. DC and territory legislature totals remain unresolved.", "This is a dated database snapshot, refreshed explicitly after a data deployment; the tracker live heartbeat is not a civic-data refresh.", "County matched-official counts use the same reviewed seat groups and explicit inventory county links as their capacity. County/local profile counts use separately recorded jurisdiction links and are never divided by seat counts.", "Texas election audit covers every date/type currently on file, including historical outcomes and races without candidates. County links come only from recorded ballot coverage. Missing dates, unallocated races and full election totals remain unresolved; an empty list never establishes that no election occurs.", "Reviewed components establish complete denominators only for their explicitly named office scope and date. They overlap the position inventory and must not be added to it. Known effective changes expire their expected total and coverage ratio until reviewed again; a passed review deadline only marks the component stale (stale_since) and keeps its total. No full county total is inferred."], "sources": [{"label": "NCSL legislative capacities (January 27, 2026)", "url": "https://documents.ncsl.org/wwwncsl/Elections/Legis_Control_2026_1.27.26_Adam%20Kuckuk.pdf"}, {"label": "Census government units (2025)", "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/gus/datasets/2025/gov_units_2025.zip"}, {"label": "Ballotbox reviewed seat inventory", "url": "https://d102d0gfxbd5t2.cloudfront.net/coverage/"}]}