Data-visualizations based on the ranked choice vote in New York City’s Democratic Mayoral primary offer insights about the prospects for election process reform in the United States.
Burlington Vermont’s 2009 Mayoral race provides a great example for visualizing the results of ranked choice elections. It’s the most consequential real-world case where a Condorcet winner beat a runoff winner (the legally elected winner), but where both beat the plurality winner. If you like controversy, you’ve come to the right dataset. There’s more about…
Voters in America’s biggest city are in store for a novel experience. By adopting ranked choice voting for their upcoming municipal elections, they’ll be piloting a relatively new model for fulfilling the chores of democratic citizenship in the United States.
The new Angular version of AimsPoll is coming along. This video is based on a sandbox version hosted at StadiumLogic.com. Over the next few weeks I’ll be focused on wiring up a .net Core backend.
Here’s a video I created to illustrate how things played out in for a memorably controversial ranked choice election in Burlington Vermont, in 2009. It includes a Sankey chart of the Instant Runoff, plus data visualizations of tabulations using both the Borda and Condorcet methods.
This is a new branding video for AimsPoll, just in time for the Unrigged conference hosted by Represent.us, where there will be several panels on ranked choice voting. A short segment at the end previews the new user interface that will be supported by the Sygnol API
AimsPoll is part of the Indaba Application Network, where the mission is to build better tools for better democracies. Follow Aimspoll on Facebook and Twitter. Stay tuned for announcements about the upcoming beta. PS. The cartoon makes more sense if you’ve already seen this…
The music in this video is from Rain Dance, the opening track of Herbie Hancock’s Sextant, released by Columbia in 1973. I’m hoping to brand Sygnol (AimsPoll’s API provider) with music from the whole album, using snips for lead ins, interludes, promos, and tone. YouTube already permits me to mix and replay this music. But…
Fairvote, a leading proponent of ranked choice voting, has been running a series of events to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It all culminates in the Champions of Democracy Awards Reception, in New York on Monday night. I think it’s appropriate to send congratulations to Krist Novoselic, who’s been serving as Fairvote’s Chair for nearly a…
