Jiri Räsänen asked: > > Hello everyone, > > I am new to this list. I am interested for possible ways to visualize > the votes tallying and the results for Beatpath method. > > Previously I have done some campaigning for the use of STV and found > out that once I could draw the graphical version of the vote > counting, > people would get the feeling that they understand what's going on. > Before this, when explaining the system, people were scratching their > heads. > > For Beatpath this might be a harder thing to do, but I'm sure there > must be some ways to present the vote counting in a visual > and dynamic > way that is sensible for the functioning of the system. > > My personal experience is that people would go to the extreme > to avoid > thinking. As most of you propably have experienced people > just bluntly > saying "oh, that is too complicated" when you try to explain a voting > system. A good visualization can give a person a sense that he/she > somehow grasps what's going on, although more comprehensive > understangin may remain unaccomlished. > > For the matter of political reform in any instance outside computer > scientist and mathematicians, I think a good visualization will be > essential. > > I did a search on this list on visualization, but found not much > useful. Has anyone of you privately been thinking of ways to > visualize > Beatpath or other Condorcet methods?
I doubt that there's any way to graphically show the difference beteen ranked-pairs and beatpath (for instance), but to just demonstrate how ranked ballots show the preponderance of voters' opinions graphically, I used this http://vmedia.rivals.com/uploads/1048/317514.gif In that "election" (really a "sports poll" about which is the best team) there was a #1 and "everybody else", but the "everybody else" part is a pretty good picture of why you need to analyze the ballots in various ways (i.e. beatpath vs ranked pairs, minmax, etc.) ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info