The electionOptions are options inside the election such as socialChoiceMethod. There are two sub categories:

• The castOptions are options for the vote caster.

• The socialChoiceOptions are options for the social choice function.

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ElectionOptions

electionOptions structure

• numTracts
• numDistricts
• socialChoiceMethod
• voteCasterName
• socialChoiceType
• castOptions
  • usr: under-sampling ratio - how many pixels in length between sampling points
  • verbosity: how much data to store in votes data structure.
• socialChoiceOptions
  • seats
  • threshold
  • numSampleCandidates

ElectionOptionsMan

ElectionOptionsMan manages electionOptions and is a mutable class that is useful when making other classes.

ElectionOptions is immutable and persistent. It’s also a simple data structure rather than a class instance. It’s useful when calling functions. It’s simpler, so it’s preferable.

The same pattern applies to CastOptionsMan and SocialChoiceOptionsMan.

The parts of ElectionOptionsMan are:

• init: initialization
• setters
  • setSocialChoiceMethod
  • setNumDistricts
  • setNumTracts
• update
• getOptions: getter
• castOptionsMan
  • update
  • getOptions: getter
• socialChoiceOptionsMan
  • update
  • getOptions: getter