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Selectricity Anywhere
- Voting Machinery for the Mobile Masses

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Selectricity Anywhere 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 @@ -17,7 +14,10 @@ election methods library with a focus on preferential decision-making. It is similar to Selectricity, a flexible web-based interface to the same voting machinery.

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Usage

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You can use Selectricity Anywhere entirely by sending and receiving emails or short text messages (SMS). In the US, most mobile @@ -34,10 +34,13 @@ Dropping), although the system can support other preferential and non-preferential voting methods.

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Please direct messages to: vote@mako.cc

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Please direct messages to: vote@selectricity.org

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Creating a New Election

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To create a new election, send a message of the following form:

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Voting

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To vote in an election, send a message of the following form:

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View Results

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To view the results of an election, send a message of one of the following forms:

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Information on a Vote

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To receive information on a vote, send a message of the following form:

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General Help

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General Help

To receive help on using the system, send a message of the following form:

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designed to fit inside a 155 character text message and will be much less extensive than the help on this page.

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Advanced Usage

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There are two advanced types of usages that users of Selectricity Anywhere might want to be aware of.

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Alternative Voting Methods

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During vote creation, users can specify a voting method other than the default (Condorcet with cloneproof Schwartz sequential dropping). @@ -222,8 +235,3 @@ described in the section on getting Information on a Vote.

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Copyleft 2006 :: -MIT Media Lab and -Benjamin Mako Hill

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