Created pitches/c.md: 238 words, five verified primary sources, one argument, and explicit uncertainty.

Checked word count, citations, third-person voice, sentence length, and whitespace. Only the permitted file was created.

Created pitches/a.md: a 221-word pitch with six opened sources, primary evidence, disclosed secondary reporting, and explicit uncertainties.

Checked word count, sentence lengths, citations, and whitespace. Only the permitted file was added.

The 232-word weekend feature pitch is in pitches/b.md. It argues that ZetaChain’s proposed migration tests whether every holder can actually claim, and cites five opened sources, including the governance proposal. I checked the word count and confirmed that only the requested path was created.

Completed ballots/j1.md.

It ranks C first, records source checks for every pitch citation, and clearly labels facts, inferences, uncertainty, and unanswered questions. Structural check passed: three ranked pitches and nine evidence labels.

I've written the ballot to ballots/j2.md, ranking the pitches C, then B, then A. It isn't committed, since the assignment didn't ask for a commit and no other paths changed.

Checks: the ballot passed my script for the style guide's sentence limits, em dashes and visible banned words, with no first-person use found. Each pitch gets three sentences of reasons, and every claim is checked in a table showing how the source was reached. Every cited URL responded except as noted below.

Limits, all disclosed in the ballot:

• Proposal 70 page: the cited hub page wouldn't render because the headless browser failed to install, so I read the proposal text from public chain endpoints. That page could still contain B's cost sentence, though the evidence makes this less likely. I think B would probably stay behind C even so, but it would be closer.
• The Block: both articles returned 403 to direct requests. I read the September one through an Internet Archive snapshot. The May one came only through a fetch tool's extraction, so its quotes need checking against the page before publication.
• Proposal 70 vote: it was still open when I wrote the ballot and closes at 16:12 UTC on 7 November. The 08:54 UTC tally was about 313.6 million ZETA for and 420.5 against.
• Style guide: it shows only part of its banned-word list ("+ 14 more"), so the hidden words couldn't be checked.
• Coverage: the under-covered judgments rest on one search per topic, not a full audit.
• Other URL responses: the RPC URL returned 405 to my plain link check because it only accepts POST, which is how I queried it.

Completed ballots/j3.md and topic.txt.

Pitch C wins unanimously, 3–0. The independent ballot was saved before reading j1 and j2. The winning pitch’s verbatim copy passed a byte-for-byte check. Only the two permitted files were created.