Use this packet for a fresh written application. All records below are original fictional teaching materials. They test reasoning under stated conditions and do not establish actual historical or population facts. Your original course-project draft remains separate.
Record charter
Citation ID: social:independent:franchise-records:v1-charter
Original fictional Riverton charter, 1842: voters must be citizens aged at least 21, resident in their district for two continuous years, and have paid the town levy for the current year. Outlying-district residents must additionally have held a freehold continuously during the preceding twelve months with a value of at least 100 credits after debts and charges on it. These rules describe this invented jurisdiction only; they are not an actual U.S. constitution or a reconstruction of New York law.
Record amendment
Citation ID: social:independent:franchise-records:v1-amendment
Fictional amendment adopted in 1848: the town-levy payment requirement is removed for central-ward residents only. All qualifications for outlying-district residents and the remaining central-ward qualifications are retained. The packet provides no earlier or later amendment.
Record applications
Citation ID: social:independent:franchise-records:v1-applications
Four fictional 1849 application files: A is an outlying resident with an estate valued at 140 credits, charges of 35, and ten months of continuous possession. B is an outlying resident with value 140, charges 45, and eighteen months of possession. C is a central-ward resident who has not paid the town levy. D is an outlying resident with value 140, charges not recorded, and eighteen months of possession. All four satisfy the stated citizenship, age and residence requirements; A, B and D have paid the levy. Values and charges are unchanged throughout the stated possession periods. No administrative decisions or ballots for these four applicants are supplied. These application files are separate from the registered cohort in the next records.
Record register
Citation ID: social:independent:franchise-records:v1-register
A separate complete official register for one 1849 election lists 120 eligible central-ward residents and 40 eligible outlying-district residents. For the arithmetic tasks, take these registered eligible cohorts as fixed. This is an administrative classification, not a count of all adults or proof that every eligibility decision was correct. It is not the four-person application sample.
Record poll
Citation ID: social:independent:franchise-records:v1-poll
The complete central-ward return records 84 distinct registered people whose ballots were accepted. The surviving outlying scan contains 20 entries: 18 distinct registered people plus two exact duplicate copies of entries already counted. Seventeen of those eighteen people have accepted ballots; the remaining person has a final rejection recorded, not an unresolved provisional ballot. A missing final page concerns six other named eligible outlying residents, distinct from the eighteen. Each of those six could have either one accepted ballot or none; their outcomes are unknown. A complete clerk’s certificate says the other sixteen eligible outlying residents did not vote. No person can cast more than one accepted ballot in this exercise.
Record newsletter
Citation ID: social:independent:franchise-records:v1-newsletter
A fictional editor reports printing 400 copies of an appeal to participate and expects two readers per copy. No delivery list, reader survey or names are supplied. The report states an expectation, not a measured count of distinct readers. No record links newsletter exposure with an accepted ballot.
Record claim
Citation ID: social:independent:franchise-records:v1-claim
An exhibit draft says: “The 1848 amendment abolished every qualification for all residents. Every applicant with a 140-credit estate qualified. Outlying turnout was exactly 20/40 = 50%, and all missing entries were nonvoters. The newsletter reached 800 distinct voters and caused participation to increase.” No earlier election returns, total adult population count, causal comparison or additional records support these statements.
This case is shared across paths that use it. Revisiting it in another course retains drafts and known review-note exposure; it is not a new unseen assessment.
Record association
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social:independent:african-american:v1-associationFictional community archive: an association's1935 minutes record a scholarship fund and 40 donors. The minutes state that members aimed to expand educational opportunity.