Matthew MalthouseHow to represent elections visually is a question with several reasonable and many unreasonable answers.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/01/upshot/many-ways-to-map-election-results.html
Renewable SexcellenceI should be packed and on my way to #GothsOnAField right now, but my brain wouldn't let me go until I wrote some code.
This is the start of a piece of work to demonstrate visually the value of preferential voting systems such as #AV over #FPTP. There will be a companion piece to demonstrate the value of #PR systems.
https://codeberg.org/diffrentcolours/whyprefvote
The long term goal is an actual grassroots movement for #VotingReform in the UK, separate from political parties.
But for now I've written enough that I can go hang out in a barn and watch #Goth #LiveMusic for a weekend.
SK53A pair of cartograms from the 1906 UK General Election. Seen framed on the wall of Bromley House Library.
MediaFaro AnalysisGermany’s mind-bending electoral maths.
The more parties qualify for parliament, the harder for Friedrich Merz to form a coalition. The Bundestag that emerges could have anything between four and seven parties. The higher that number, the fewer seats for the larger parties and the trickier the coalition options for the CDU/CSU.
Mr Merz will be watching the results for the small parties as closely as his own.
KennethIt's only a series of non-events until the county clerks get in on the action.
Drilling into the spooky action at a distance of the Electoral College, what happens administratively if the votes don't come in from one or more (swing) states?
There are 538 electors who convene on their various campuses the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday of December.
This campaign cycle that's December 17th.
This campaign cycle that's seven choke points. Or if you'd like, seven single points of failure.
Plenty of room and time to gum up the works at the state level.
Sequester the electors.
@hacks4pancakes
I'm looking at Pennsylvania in particular, and it's one of those states,where the ballots aren't processed whatsoever until Election Day. And I don't mean counting the votes, I mean basic tabulation, filing, logistics, etc.
(The others are Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah.)
And in the great swing state of Idaho, where we swing ever further right, an interesting poll on Proposition 1. Neck and neck!
https://idahodispatch.com/zoldak-idaho-dispatch-poll-prop-1-down-5-8-with-large-shifts-possible/
Zoldak/ Idaho Dispatch Poll: Prop 1 Down 5.8% with Large Shifts Possible
A new poll released Thursday by Zoldak Research and the Idaho Dispatch reveals opposition to Proposition 1 holds an edge, but the final outcome could shift greatly depending on the level of familiarity with the measure.The ballot initiative would enact a top-four primary system and implement ranked
The fact that Pennsylvania, of all states, doesn't even begin to process its absentee ballots until Election Day (tabulation and gross counting, not even the counting of votes) had me wondering which states actually deal with all that paper beforehand in some measure.
Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah!
The source I leave as an exercise for the reader...