[cvn-developers] election day tasks

[Seb Bacon]

I've been asked by a couple of journalists if our volunteers will be doing anything on election day.

In particular, any volunteers who had observations on turnout, anecdotes, incidents, and if any are at counts and can give indications of how things are going.

Any bright ideas about how we might simply achieve this?

Seb

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[Richard Pope]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Seb Bacon <seb....@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been asked by a couple of journalists if our volunteers will be doing anything on election day.

In particular, any volunteers who had observations on turnout, anecdotes, incidents, and if any are at counts and can give indications of how things are going.

Any bright ideas about how we might simply achieve this?

Is it a bit dodgy doing things on election day? I was planning on disabling the SC upload for the day.

If it isnt dodgy here's what I'd suggest:

Get people to ask 2 or 3 questions of any party reps standing outside the polling station. They will have been campaigning for the past month and have a good idea of how turnout is going on the day.

 

Seb

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[Francis Irving]

The most useful practical thing they could do long term, is register
as electoral monitors (like the successful ORG electronic voting
watching a couple of years ago).

For this Thursday... I'm not sure.

Night time I would like a crowd sourcing app for as the results come
in. It would be used to fill out loads and loads of details about new
MPs - everything on their YourNextMP profile, plus all the other
fields we can think of, or TWFY need, or Julian Todd wants. (So
twitter link, birth day...)

Possibly plus have some non-partisan people sanity check their new
Wikipedia pages.

Copied to Matthew, in case he has thoughts on info TWFY will need
about new MPs.

Francis

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[Tim Green]

For election day I suggest that they take a break and vote :)

Afterwards I guess gathering info on new MPs. I was also thinking about
sending a questionnaire in a few weeks to ask them what motivated them
to sign up, what sort of thing they'd be interested in doing etc.

-t

[Edmund von der Burg]

On 3 May 2010 14:29:23 UTC+1, Francis Irving <fra...@mysociety.org> wrote:
> The most useful practical thing they could do long term, is register
> as electoral monitors (like the successful ORG electronic voting
> watching a couple of years ago).
>
> For this Thursday... I'm not sure.
>
> Night time I would like a crowd sourcing app for as the results come
> in. It would be used to fill out loads and loads of details about new
> MPs - everything on their YourNextMP profile, plus all the other
> fields we can think of, or TWFY need, or Julian Todd wants. (So
> twitter link, birth day...)

Yes - I was just about to build that for YNMP:

interface to enter the votes for each candidates for a constituency
flag on the constituency page saying who won
a self refreshing 'election night' page showing:
* pie chart of seats declared vs remaining
* pie chart of seats won by party
* pie chart of votes by party
* list of last five seats to be declared

I will be in bed so any thoughts on ways to moderate this welcome:
should it be limited to DC users or is there a hard core cadre of you
politics wonks who'll stay up all night and so wouldn't mind doing it
- I'll flag your accounts so you can enter the details. Or I make it
public write and hope that people don't screw it up...

The votes etc will all be in the json dumps so that others can access it.

Cheers,
Edmund.

> Possibly plus have some non-partisan people sanity check their new
> Wikipedia pages.
>
> Copied to Matthew, in case he has thoughts on info TWFY will need
> about new MPs.
>
> Francis
>
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 12:59:06PM +0100, Seb Bacon wrote:
>> I've been asked by a couple of journalists if our volunteers will be doing
>> anything on election day.
>>
>> In particular, any volunteers who had observations on turnout, anecdotes,
>> incidents, and if any are at counts and can give indications of how things
>> are going.
>>
>> Any bright ideas about how we might simply achieve this?
>>
>> Seb
>>
>> --
>> skype: seb.bacon
>> mobile: 07790 939224
>> land: 020 8123 9473
>
> --
> Help beat party propaganda during this Election - www.democracyclub.org.uk
>

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[Edmund von der Burg]

On 3 May 2010 16:39:46 UTC+1, Edmund von der Burg

<edmund.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 May 2010 14:29:23 UTC+1, Francis Irving <fra...@mysociety.org> wrote:
>> Night time I would like a crowd sourcing app for as the results come
>> in. It would be used to fill out loads and loads of details about new
>> MPs - everything on their YourNextMP profile, plus all the other
>> fields we can think of, or TWFY need, or Julian Todd wants. (So
>> twitter link, birth day...)
>
> Yes - I was just about to build that for YNMP:

Done now: http://stage.yournextmp.com/results

Will roll out tot live after 10pm.

Cheers,
Edmund

[Seb Bacon]

Wow!

Is it a free-for-all?

Seb

[Edmund von der Burg]

On Thursday, May 6, 2010, Seb Bacon <seb....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow!
>
> Is it a free-for-all?

Yes. I figured that would be easiest. Perhaps a dc task in a few days
to find the declaratIons and then checking the numbers.

Edmund