VoteCasters: Votes are cast.

• Parent Page: Election

VoteCasters

• Voters cast their ballots.
• A distribution of a population of voters is sampled. A 2D spatial model is used to make the decision of how to vote or who to vote for.
• The vote is aggregated into a set that only contains the information needed to elect winners and to visualize.
• There are two ways to cast.
  1. By voter.
  2. By regions of voters. This is more complicated.
• The “votes” data structure is described below.

Votes

Some of the following is output from a vote caster.

• for socialChoiceMethods
  • votePop - the fraction of the population that voted as listed.
  • List of votes:
    • scoreVotes - a list of votes. Each vote has a score for each candidate.
    • rankingVotes - a list of votes. Each vote has a rank for each candidate.
    • cansByRank - a list of votes. Each vote is a list indexed by ranking. A list of candidates is at each ranking.
  • preComputedTallies:
    • tallyFractions - a number for each candidate.
    • pairwiseTallyFractions - a fraction for each pair of candidates.
• for viz
  • cellData:
    • {ranking, cells}
    • {ranking, intervalBorders}
  • gridData: { grid, voteSet, voterGeom }