Project Review Wednesday: Election

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Module: Election

What does it do?

The Election Module does elections in Drupal. And it does this in a very Drupal 7 way, by creating entity types for everything involved in elections, e.g. candidates, and using a modular structure for election methods. So if you wanted to do something crazy like divide your voters into, say, 50 different groups and have everyone vote individually, but then have their votes represented collectively as a single group, roughly (but not exactly) weighted by the number of people in each group (whether or not they voted) the last time you counted... well, you could do that. That would be a crazy way to do an election, but you could do it with this module.

Potential Uses

UCLU is apparently using this for real elections. If that seems a little too obvious, maybe you could settle where you're going to lunch with a single transferable vote election.

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