About
The value of an election expert is judgment.
A skill carries that judgment into whatever AI tool an election official already uses, so any official, in any tool, gets a response that reflects how an expert would handle the task.
What this is
The Election Skills Library is a collection of AI skills. Each one is a folder of structured instructions and supporting reference material that captures The Elections Group's experience running elections. A skill is not an app, a hosted service, or a model. It is portable expertise that loads into an agent you already have, and it goes with you into Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini.
Each skill targets a language heavy, judgment driven task that takes up an official's day and where a grounded skill earns its keep over a plain model. Work that demands exact, repeatable correctness, like ballot proofing, tabulation, or chain of custody, belongs to software, and we leave it there.
Why a skill, not a prompt
A prompt library is a web page of prompts to copy and paste. It leaves the official to do the assembly and hands them nothing beyond the words on the page. These skills carry the expertise itself, the caveats, the discipline, the awareness of jurisdiction, and they travel into the official's own tool. It is the difference between a recipe card and a cook.
Where the facts come from
The skills are written to work anywhere, because they carry no baked-in legal facts to go stale. A skill brings the method and does the research: the deadline, the statute, the exemption, it searches reputable sources for each, shows you the value and the source to verify, and asks for anything it can't find. Nothing is used until you confirm it, and the skill is never the source of a fact.
The standing commitment
Skills are drafts for human review, never sent on their own. No legal fact is published until it traces to a real source. Uncertainty is shown, not smoothed over. A subject matter expert checks the work, and the plan does not move ahead of them.