Qualifications
A qualification is a named area of competence somebody running for office either has or does not, with a written rubric describing what each level of it looks like.
Sixteen areas are authored, carrying 781 graded criteria between them, each scaled 1 to 10 — and all of it was published before anybody was assessed against it.
The areas
anti-corruption · citizens' rights · constitutional governing competence · governance and constitutional law · domestic policy · economics · foreign policy · national security · loyalty to the country · not controlled or influenced · intellectual rigor · policy expertise · management · public speaking · representation and leadership · great life experience
Each is a file in the public record with a frozen key that is used verbatim as the filename of every assessment written against it — rather than re-derived by each reader, which is how identifiers drift.
The design goal
A market Democrat, an industrial-policy Republican, and a deregulatory libertarian must all be able to score a 9 in the same area.
That is the bar the rubrics are written to. What earns a high level is naming a mechanism and saying who pays. What loses points is having no mechanism.
When an early draft encoded a policy position as a level — "more funding is the education 10", "repeal this statute is the permitting 10" — those were pulled out and replaced with mechanism-based criteria. A rubric only one political position can top is a broken rubric, and the movement wants to be told when it has written one.
The 0–10 scale
Rendered in eleven shades, with a companion percent known figure. An assessment that looks confident but rests on one interview is a weak sample, not a strong finding, and the two are never presented identically.
Pages in this area
- The qualification areas — what each one covers.
- How a rubric works — levels, criteria, and the mechanism test.
- Read the rubrics — where they are and how to argue with them.
Where to go next
- Voting Records — the area before this one.
- Meritocracy — the area after this one.
- Open the app — do this for real, on your own seats.