# Continuity Election Attestation
**Domain:** Continuity / Identity / Privacy
**Doc Type:** Canonical Technical-Legal Primitive
**Maturity:** Proposed
## Definition
A **Continuity Election Attestation** is a verifiable statement establishing a narrowly scoped fact about an operative [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]]—for example that a non-revoked directive exists, that a named agent holds a defined authority, or that a particular election version governs—without exposing the complete directive.
The attestation is evidence about an election. It is not the election, the underlying identity credential, a provider contract or permission to exceed the attested scope.
## Design Requirements
- bind the attestation to a durable identity and exact directive version;
- state issuer, scope, issue time, expiry or status-check method;
- support revocation and supersession without rewriting history;
- disclose only the minimum necessary attribute;
- prevent correlation across unrelated transactions where possible; and
- preserve an audit path to the protected source instrument.
## Current-Law Analogue
Regulation (EU) 2024/1183 provides a framework for electronic attestations of attributes, revocation, qualified electronic archiving and qualified electronic ledgers. It supplies useful primitives for verification and integrity. **It does not define a continuity-election attribute or authorize post-biological transition.**
- [Regulation (EU) 2024/1183](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1183/oj?locale=en)
## Key Insight
**A verifier may need proof that authority exists without receiving a person's theology, medical history or complete continuity plan.**
## Corpus Sources
[[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]]
## See Also
[[wiki/Continuity Election Registry|Continuity Election Registry]], [[wiki/ID-Based Digital Administration|ID-Based Digital Administration]], [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]], [[wiki/Continuity Supersession|Continuity Supersession]]