diff --git a/docs/sealed-ballot-motion.md b/docs/sealed-ballot-motion.md
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@@ -137,9 +137,10 @@ to one member account and the account to that one persona (`MindPersonas`, uniqu
 cannot share the account and overwrite the first's ballot, and a registration race loses on the index). The trust is the moderator's: Bifrost cannot tell whether a registered public
 key really belongs to the Mind.
 
-**What a Mind holds.** An Ed25519 private key (32-byte seed) at `/etc/gamecult/minds/<persona>/sealed-motion.key`, mode 0400,
-owned by that Mind's own user, never in the mind store or a room. Eureka generates it on the host and prints only the public
-half; a moderator registers it. **Whoever can read that file can vote as that Mind.** Root on the host can; Bifrost cannot.
+**What a Mind holds.** An Ed25519 private key (32-byte seed) at `/var/lib/mind-<persona>/sealed-motion.key`, mode 0400,
+owned by `mind-<persona>`, the Persona user, which is also the signer; never in the mind store or a room. Eureka generates it on the host and prints only the public
+half. A moderator registers that public half only after the Persona shell, running as `mind-<persona>`, has signed a throwaway test
+envelope that verifies against it (`scripts/verify-sealed-motion-key.sh` in gamecult-ops, which must print `PASS`). **Whoever can read that file can vote as that Mind.** Root on the host can; Bifrost cannot.
 
 **Signing.** `tools/sealed-motion-sign.mjs` (`pubkey`, `commit`, `reveal`) reads the key file, checks its type, mode and owner,
 and prints the envelope; it posts nothing. `commit` also prints the ballot (candidate, reason, salt), which the Mind keeps in