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- <h3>Selectricity Anywhere<br />
- <font size="-1">Voting Machinery for the <em>Mobile</em> Masses</font></h3>
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-
-<p><em>Selectricity Anywhere</em> tries to help groups make better
-decisions in their everyday lives. It tries to make voting technology
-created for state elections and government use easily accessible for
-every day decisions.</p>
-
-<p><em>Selectricity Anywhere</em> is an email and SMS based interface to <a
-href="http://rubyvote.rubyforge.org">RubyVote</a> a full-featured
-election methods library with a focus on preferential decision-making.
-It is similar to <a href="http://selectricity.media.mit.edu">Selectricity</a>,
-a flexible web-based interface to the same voting machinery.</p>
-
-<h2>Usage</h2>
-
-<p>You can use <em>Selectricity Anywhere</em> entirely by sending and
-receiving emails or short text messages (SMS). In the US, most mobile
-phones that cannot send email can send an text message or SMS to an
-email address. <em>Selectricity Anywhere's</em> is designed to minimize the
-amount of typing necessary to use the system while ensuring that answers
-are small enough that they can fit in a mobile phone text message.</p>
-
-<div class="warning">
-<h4>Important Note</h4> <p>By default, all decisions are made with the
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method">
-Schulze method</a> (Condorcet with Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential
-Dropping), although the system can support other preferential and
-non-preferential voting methods.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p>Please direct messages to: <strong><em><a href="mailto:vote@mako.cc">vote@mako.cc</a></em></strong></p>
-
-
-<h3>Creating a New Election</h3>
-
-<p>To create a new election, send a message of the following form:</p>
-
-<blockquote><tt>new <em>votename</em> <em>ABCD</em></tt></blockquote>
-
-<p>Replace <tt><em>votename</em></tt> with an identifier for your vote.
-All votes will need to be prefixed with this so pick something short and
-easy to communicate to the other voters.</p>
-
-<p>Replace <tt><em>ABCD</em></tt> with a list of letters, each of which
-represents a choice in the election. If you are going choose lunch
-between Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican and Thai, a good string might be
-<em><tt>CVMT</tt></em>. Capitalization is not necessary and does not
-matter.</p>
-
-<p>You will receive a confirmation message with information on how to
-vote.</p>
-
-<div class="warning">
-<h4>Warning</h4>
-<p>All votes will last only one hour. After one hour
-from creating your vote, you will not be able to view the results or
-vote in the election and your unique identifier will become available
-for use in new votes.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="example">
-<h4>Example Command</h4>
-<p><tt>new lunch CVMT</tt></p>
-</div>
-
-<h3>Voting</h3>
-
-<p>To vote in an election, send a message of the following form:</p>
-
-<blockquote><tt><em>votename</em> <em>ABCD</em></tt></blockquote>
-
-<p>Replace <tt><em>votename</em></tt> with an identifier for the vote you
-would like to vote in.
-
-<p>Replace <tt><em>ABCD</em></tt> with a list of the the choices <em>in
-the order that you prefer</em>. Please list all choices and do not
-include any letters that are not choices. Send the choices as one "word"
--- do not separate them with spaces or punctuations. Capitalization is
-not necessary and does not matter.</p>
-
-<p>Each voter will receive a confirmation message for their vote after it
-is recorded.</p>
-
-<div class="example">
-<h4>Example Command</h4> <p><tt>lunch TVMC</tt></p> <p>This would vote
-express a preference of Thai over Vietnamese over Mexican over Chinese
-in the election created in the example above.</p>
-</div>
-
-<h3>View Results</h3>
-
-<p>To view the results of an election, send a message of one of the
-following forms:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <tt>results <em>votename</em></tt><br />
- <em>.. or ..</em><br />
- <tt>res <em>votename</em></tt>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Replace <tt><em>votename</em></tt> with an identifier for the vote you
-want results for.</p>
-
-<p>The results will be computed and sent to the address that you sent
-the message from .</p>
-
-<div class="example">
-<h4>Example Command</h4>
-<p><tt>res lunch</tt></p>
-</div>
-
-<h3>Information on a Vote</h3>
-
-<p>To receive information on a vote, send a message of the following
-form:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <tt>info <em>votename</em></tt><br />
- <em>.. or ..</em><br />
- <tt><em>votename</em></tt>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Replace <tt><em>votename</em></tt> with an identifier for the vote you
-want information on.</p>
-
-<p>Information will be sent to the address that you sent the message
-from.</p>
-
-<div class="example">
-<h4>Example Command</h4>
-<p><tt>info lunch</tt></p>
-</div>
-
-<h3>General Help</h3>
-
-<p>To receive help on using the system, send a message of the following
-form:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <tt>help</tt><br />
- <em>.. or ..</em><br />
- <tt>?</tt>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The system will respond with help information. However, the help is
-designed to fit inside a 155 character text message and will be
-<em>much</em> less extensive than the help on this page.</p>
-
-
-<h2>Advanced Usage</h2>
-
-<p>There are two advanced types of usages that users of <em>Selectricity
-Anywhere</em> might want to be aware of.</p>
-
-<dt><strong>Candidate Descriptions</strong></dt>
-<dd>
-<p>During vote creation, users can provide longer descriptions for
-candidates using a vote creation command of the following form:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <tt>new <em>votename</em> <em>ABCD</em> <em>A:description B:description C:description D:description</em></tt>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The first three arguments are from the standard vote creation. The
-second include a series of one-word descriptions which are prefixed by
-the vote character and a <tt>:</tt>.</p>
-
-<p>Voters can see the voting list by sending a message containing
-<tt>info <em>votename</em></tt> or <tt><em>votename</em></tt> as
-described in the section on getting <em>Information on a Vote</em>.</p>
-
-<div class="example">
-<h4>Example Command</h4>
-<p><tt>new lunch CVMT c:chinese v:vietnamese m:mexican t:thai</tt></p>
-</div>
-
-<h3>Alternative Voting Methods</h3>
-
-<p>During vote creation, users can specify a voting method other than
-the default (Condorcet with cloneproof Schwartz sequential dropping).
-
-<p>They do so using a vote creation command of the following form:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <tt>new <em>votename</em> <em>ABCD</em> method<em>:methodname</em></tt>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The first three arguments are from the standard vote creation.
-<tt><em>methodname</em></tt> must be the name of a voting method that is
-supported. Possible methods include:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><tt>plurality</tt>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_electoral_system">Plurality Voting</a></li>
-<li><tt>approval</tt>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting">Approval voting</a></li>
-<li><tt>condorcet</tt>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method">Condorcet voting</a></li>
-<li><tt>ssd</tt>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method">Schulze method</a> (Condorcet voting with cloneproof Schwartz sequential
-dropping) <em>(default)</em></li>
-<li><tt>borda</tt>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count">Borda count</a></li>
-<li><tt>runoff</tt>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Runoff_Voting">Instant runoff voting</a> (IRV)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<div class="warning">
-<h4>Note</h4>
-<p>If you have selected approval or plurality voting, you
-do not need to include a list of each candidate with each vote.</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<p>Voters can see the voting list by sending a message containing
-<tt>info <em>votename</em></tt> or <tt><em>votename</em></tt> as
-described in the section on getting <em>Information on a Vote</em>.</p>
-
-<div class="example">
-<h4>Example Command</h4>
-<p><tt>new lunch CVMT method:approval</tt></p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-<p><font size="-1">Copyleft 2006 ::
-<a href="http://www.media.mit.edu">MIT Media Lab</a> and
-<a href="http://mako.cc">Benjamin Mako Hill</a></font></p>
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