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- <h3>HyperChad Anywhere<br />
+ <h3>Selectricity Anywhere<br />
<font size="-1">Voting Machinery for the <em>Mobile</em> Masses</font></h3>
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-<p><em>HyperChad Anywhere</em> tries to help groups make better
+<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>
HyperChad Anywhere</em> is an email and SMS based interface to <a
+<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://hyperchad.media.mit.edu">HyperChad</a>,
+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>HyperChad Anywhere</em> entirely by sending and
+<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>HyperChad Anywhere's</em> is designed to minimize the
+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>
<h2>Advanced Usage</h2>
-<p>There are two advanced types of usages that users of <em>HyperChad
+<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>
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