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Sweden Democrats' Meeting Tool
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Sweden Democrats' Meeting Tool
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Provides three types of election handling:
An electoral register is used for open and anonymous elections.
The plugin provides shortcodes for displaying election results to visitors.
Enable the plugin in Wordpress.
The plugin will then create the following database tables:
The three types of elections are handled somewhat differently. Two of them, open and anonymous elections, need an electoral register. The simplest election type, the manual, requires nothing but some voting choices and the results to be typed in manually.
The electoral register calculates which participants have the right to vote, depending on which of the participants are present. The total participants are separated into groups, the 1-first order voters are calculated and then the votes are distributed to those participants that have voting rights and are present at the meeting.
When editing the election two fields are used:
In the voting order field, specify a number. 1 is for first-order voters, meaning that they constitute the max amount of voters for the group. SD Meeting Tool sums the amount of 1 voters for each group.
When calculating who gets to vote, if a first-order voter in the gorup is absent, a second-order voter will be able to vote in his place. If yet another first-order voter is absent, another second-order voter will be given voting rights. If a second-order voter is not available then a third-order will be tried. Repeat until there are no >1 voters left.
If there are several participants that have the same voting order the first available participant will be chosen.
The simplest type of election used to quick hand counts. Create it, specify the name and which choices the voters can vote for. Don't forget to specify an abstain choice.
The next step is to register votes. You will be shown an informational text specifying that the choices can not be changed. Accept and then simply type in how many voted for each choice.
When the votes have been counted, finish registering votes.
Now the results can be viewed and a shortcode can be created to show the results to the visitors.
Similar to manual elections, the anonymous type has choices that must be filled-in manually but also has an electoral register and lists that control who may vote and who has voted.
Each time the election is edited the electoral register is cleared.
After registering all the votes the votes can be counted and the results typed in the results box.
Finish registering votes to go to the results page.
Similar to anonymous elections, the open type has an electoral register and lists for who may and has voted.
The choices, instead of just being text boxes, are now associated to lists. Every participant that has voted for a specific choice is placed into the associated list.
If you use auto-generated lists for may-vote and have-vote, you will find that creating separate registrations and actions for each election will require a lot of work.
It would be faster to use a just one action and one set of lists and copy the results to archive lists. Like so:
The participants that have voted will be placed in the generic "have voted" list.
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