[Ottawa_users] Volunteer project for Fair Vote Canada

[Amos Hayes]

Might want to have a look at this. It was developed by a PhD candidate at our lab. Might be re-usable for what you are trying to accomplish. It explores the use of sound to "show" what isn't shown on your typical election map.

http://gcrc.carleton.ca/cne/proof_of_concepts/elect2004/

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Amos Hayes
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Carleton University, Canada
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On 2011-04-29, at 12:09 PM, Julien Lamarche wrote:

> Bonjour,
> 
> Julien Lamarche from Fair Vote Canada.  I've hung around a bit as
> OSGEO meetings and some of you know me.  I must apologize for my
> prolonged absence.
> 
> If any of you will be compiling election results, I'd love to have a
> map on "wasted" votes by poll (votes going to a non-winning candidate)
> in the Ottawa - Gatineau area.  Street lines and rivers would be nice
> just to situate the polls.
> 
> Fair Vote Canada's mission is to reform the electoral system to a more
> proportional system so that more votes count and the legislature
> better represents canadians in their ethnic and gender diversity.  In
> the last federal election, 50.7% of all votes did not go to a winning
> candidate.   More info at fairvote.ca .  I am Vice-president of the
> Ottawa chapter of FVC.
> 
> Since its a volunteer project for internal use mostly, you would be
> free to follow as little or as many requirements as you'd like.
> Number of ridings (1 to 10), symbology, one map or multiple maps per
> party, etc..  E-mail me for questions, and I'd be happy to discuss it
> over phone as well.
> 
> Julien
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