• The optionsBag contains many options, including for sampling, geography, sequences, polling, and elections.

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OptionsBag

optionsBag structure

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

ElectionOptionsMan

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

optionsBag 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