hey hey here's something (longwinded) that might be useful.
okay, so, i haven't had time for...at least the past month (or two? idek) to read lj/dw or even think about posting, though happily people have occasionally shoved links to posts at me and i've read those? someday, man, someday soon, i will actually have time to do wacky things like read posts by my friends and get a haircut and finally unpack the stuff that is randomly crammed in the garage and finish repairing the closet door. maybe.
anyway. right now i am working on all the otw election stuffs, srsly. well, not all, because i am...not the elections officer yay! which means none of the braining part has anything to do with me, just the documenting and pushing buttons and helping with testing, etc. which is sort of the bit i like, anyway. (the rest, tbh, stresses me the fuck out. it stressed me the fuck out last year, so that's neither unexpected nor new. i take shit seriously! ethics, man. fairness! anyway. so i get a little anxious about being extra careful, and -- well, i'm a pretty anxious person to start with.)
erm, that's all neither here nor there, except part of what i am furiously working on is an explanation of how the voting process actually works! because it is confusing! and awesome. but i personally can't explain it without like 17 trillion words. or just a link to wikipedia. we use a modified irv process. that's preferential voting! it's awesome, you really don't have to ever vote *against* a candidate, only *for* them! and i hear it's near-impossible to game, which...i am not a mathematician, so i couldn't have done that anyway (i don't really know what "game" means here, but someone smart told me that and so i am saying it too. shenanigans are shenanigans, right). and the actual process is crammed with checks and balances, which also helps, imo -- because it means we can all be confident in the process itself, removing at least one stress element.
anyway. in pursuit of explaining the process, i have asked people who can actually do graphic things to make happy charts. and one is nearly through beta! and the other is still in the works! and i expect that they will make an awesome, hopefully helpful post on transformativeworks.org by monday! i have handed people who have braining-type spoons available my 17 trillion rambly words and begged them to make sense of them. and then
anatsuno mused about how she had to work out how the process worked on a piece of paper and i was all GPOY!!!!1!1!!!!1!!!! and tried to talk about it with her and...failed again, stupid words.
so. i made a HUGELY oversimplified set of graphics that kind of get it across. they may or may not later make an official appearance, but that remains to be seen. if you have concrit or questions, i welcome ways to make it better (that don't require, like, skill.)
i will also be editing this post tonight and tomorrow to make the images accessible - i also welcome suggestions for alt text. i am running out of steam and want to get this out now while i still potentially have time to workshop it a bit. <3
the otw uses a modified version of instant runoff voting - the modification is so that we can fill multiple seats, non-hierarchically, using a single election and single ballot. all the candidates are on the ballot, and the voters rank them in preference order. in order to get a seat, a candidate must have a majority as 1st preference on the ballot. in order to determine that, runoffs are done in rounds. the candidate with the fewest 1st preference votes is eliminated, and all ballots are adjusted. and that's where i stop being able to explain with words.
but here's the modification, before we get to the images: once we get a winner, we go back to the original, pre-runoff ballot, and remove the winning candidate - and start again as though they don't exist! they don't, after all, as a candidate - they are seated. okay, so, have some pictures. click for bigger.
okay. massive thanks to
via_ostiense and
anatsuno for visual and text beta.
/collapses, crawls back in hole.
ps this is not an official post, etc etc, my name is allison morris and i'm on the otw board, etc etc more, i speak for me here, not anybody else, as per usual, there you go. disfuckingclaimed. :D expect official post later and brainier and with more capitalization/fewer !!!
originally posted at http://general-jinjur.dreamwidth.org/672452.html. possibly there is commentversation there? let's see:
anyway. right now i am working on all the otw election stuffs, srsly. well, not all, because i am...not the elections officer yay! which means none of the braining part has anything to do with me, just the documenting and pushing buttons and helping with testing, etc. which is sort of the bit i like, anyway. (the rest, tbh, stresses me the fuck out. it stressed me the fuck out last year, so that's neither unexpected nor new. i take shit seriously! ethics, man. fairness! anyway. so i get a little anxious about being extra careful, and -- well, i'm a pretty anxious person to start with.)
erm, that's all neither here nor there, except part of what i am furiously working on is an explanation of how the voting process actually works! because it is confusing! and awesome. but i personally can't explain it without like 17 trillion words. or just a link to wikipedia. we use a modified irv process. that's preferential voting! it's awesome, you really don't have to ever vote *against* a candidate, only *for* them! and i hear it's near-impossible to game, which...i am not a mathematician, so i couldn't have done that anyway (i don't really know what "game" means here, but someone smart told me that and so i am saying it too. shenanigans are shenanigans, right). and the actual process is crammed with checks and balances, which also helps, imo -- because it means we can all be confident in the process itself, removing at least one stress element.
anyway. in pursuit of explaining the process, i have asked people who can actually do graphic things to make happy charts. and one is nearly through beta! and the other is still in the works! and i expect that they will make an awesome, hopefully helpful post on transformativeworks.org by monday! i have handed people who have braining-type spoons available my 17 trillion rambly words and begged them to make sense of them. and then
anatsuno mused about how she had to work out how the process worked on a piece of paper and i was all GPOY!!!!1!1!!!!1!!!! and tried to talk about it with her and...failed again, stupid words.
so. i made a HUGELY oversimplified set of graphics that kind of get it across. they may or may not later make an official appearance, but that remains to be seen. if you have concrit or questions, i welcome ways to make it better (that don't require, like, skill.)
i will also be editing this post tonight and tomorrow to make the images accessible - i also welcome suggestions for alt text. i am running out of steam and want to get this out now while i still potentially have time to workshop it a bit. <3
the otw uses a modified version of instant runoff voting - the modification is so that we can fill multiple seats, non-hierarchically, using a single election and single ballot. all the candidates are on the ballot, and the voters rank them in preference order. in order to get a seat, a candidate must have a majority as 1st preference on the ballot. in order to determine that, runoffs are done in rounds. the candidate with the fewest 1st preference votes is eliminated, and all ballots are adjusted. and that's where i stop being able to explain with words.
but here's the modification, before we get to the images: once we get a winner, we go back to the original, pre-runoff ballot, and remove the winning candidate - and start again as though they don't exist! they don't, after all, as a candidate - they are seated. okay, so, have some pictures. click for bigger.
okay. massive thanks to
via_ostiense and
anatsuno for visual and text beta.
/collapses, crawls back in hole.
ps this is not an official post, etc etc, my name is allison morris and i'm on the otw board, etc etc more, i speak for me here, not anybody else, as per usual, there you go. disfuckingclaimed. :D expect official post later and brainier and with more capitalization/fewer !!!
originally posted at http://general-jinjur.dreamwidth.org/672452.html. possibly there is commentversation there? let's see: