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The Basics |
An Explorable Guide to Group Decision Making |
By Paretoman and Contributors, May 2020 |
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{% include letters.html %}
Take a look at this great interactive sketch that Nicky Case made. You have two candidates {{ A }} {{ B }} and you have a voter 
. Just move the voter and you'll see that he is just gonna vote for whoever he's closest to.
{% include sim-intro.html
id='model1'
caption='<b><span style="font-size:2.5em;">click & drag</span><br>the candidates and the voter:</b>'
gif='gif/model1.gif'
%}
You can add more voters and see that you kinda get a sense of how voters are gonna vote as they move around and how an election with those voters would go. Most votes wins.
{% include sim-intro.html
id='model2'
caption='<b>drag the candidates & voter<span class="underline">s</span> around.<br>(to move voters, drag the <em>middle</em> of the crowd)<br>watch how that changes the election:</b>'
gif="gif/model2.gif"
%}
In this kind of voting, you get a single choice for who you want to win. The ballot is pretty simple. This is the way the ballot is now.
{% include sim.html title='Single Choice Voting' caption='Also called First Past the Post.' id='ballotSingle' link='link' gif="gif/ballotSingle.gif" %}
That's the end of The Basics.
Why do we vote this way? Why do we even vote? In the next part, I'm going to explain voting as a way to find common ground as a group.
{% include card.html title='Finding Common Ground' description=' - Click here next.' url='commonground' img='img/venn-diagram.png' %}