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The rules that keep AmericanElectionHQ a useful, trustworthy civic platform.
Last Updated: April 25, 2026 · Effective: April 25, 2026
DRAFT — pending formal legal review. The substance below reflects how we operate today; we may revise the wording without changing the underlying rules.
AmericanElectionHQ is a public civic platform. Its value depends on real people sharing real opinions in good faith. This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) describes the conduct that is and is not permitted. It applies to everyone who uses any part of the platform — visitors, registered accounts, candidates, campaign teams, embed-widget hosts, and operators of state vanity domains.
The AUP supplements our Terms & Legal and Privacy & Data policies. By using the platform, you agree to follow it.
Do not use scripts, bots, headless browsers, automation frameworks, or any other tool that imitates human use of the platform to submit poll responses, supporter actions, feedback, contact-form messages, candidate submissions, newsletter sign-ups, or any other public form. Each interaction must come from a real person making an independent decision.
Do not submit duplicate or near-duplicate content across forms. Do not subscribe other people to our newsletter or to candidate updates without their permission. Do not use the platform to send unsolicited bulk communications.
Do not impersonate another user, candidate, public official, journalist, election authority, or AmericanElectionHQ team member. When you submit information on a candidate’s behalf through the candidate update form, identify yourself accurately and only submit information you are authorized to provide.
Do not organize or participate in efforts to artificially inflate or suppress poll results — including but not limited to brigading, coordinated voting from a single IP / VPN pool, vote-buying, vote-trading, or any other inauthentic amplification campaign. The platform’s value depends on opt-in signal that reflects honest opinion.
Do not scrape, crawl, or otherwise extract data from the platform in violation of our robots.txt file, published rate limits, or in a way that imposes meaningful load on the service. Press, researchers, and civic-tech partners who need bulk data should email support@americanelectionhq.com — we typically grant non-commercial research access on reasonable terms.
Do not attempt to disrupt the platform — through denial-of- service attacks, traffic floods, abuse of public submission endpoints, intentional injection of malformed payloads, or any other means designed to degrade the service for other users. Do not introduce malware, phishing payloads, or other hostile code into any platform surface.
Do not use the platform to harass, threaten, intimidate, or dox other participants, candidates, election officials, or our team. Do not use any form on the platform — feedback, suggestion, contact, candidate update — as a vehicle for harassment.
Do not attempt to access any part of the platform you are not authorized to use — including admin or CRM surfaces, another user’s account, internal API endpoints, or underlying infrastructure. Do not probe or reverse-engineer authentication, authorization, or rate-limit mechanisms outside our coordinated-disclosure program (see security.txt, when published).
Do not use the platform to facilitate or commit any violation of applicable law — including campaign finance law, election law, telemarketing law (TCPA), copyright and trademark law, and data-protection law.
Violations of this AUP may result in any of the following, at our sole discretion and without prior notice:
We log administrative actions taken in response to AUP violations so that decisions are reviewable and auditable.
If you encounter content or behavior that you believe violates this AUP, please report it. We review every credible report.
We will acknowledge receipt of credible reports and respond with the action we take. We will not retaliate against anyone who reports a suspected violation in good faith.