OTW Election - Candidate profiles!

[ira_gladkova]

dance dance internets at home! and laptop hopefully fixed soon!

I mentioned a little while ago that I'd like to put together sort of "candidate profiles" as a resource for voters, where you can see all of a candidate's responses to all questions together, then the same for the next candidate, etc. I've been pretty flattened since then, but as today was a holiday in my area/at my job, I took the time off to put that together, finally!

general_jinjur/allisonmorris (names linked w/ permission) has lent her assistance in getting those put up on the Elections site, and now we have a profile of each candidate linked from their candidate statement.

Take a look on the Candidates page. Or, for those inclined to less clicking:

• Julia Beck
• Naomi Novik
• Lucy Pearson*
• Betsy Rosenblatt
• Nikisha Sanders
• Jenny Scott-Thompson

All together, the candidates produced over 60,000 words worth of responses over the course of a bit over a week — this is an extraordinary amount of effort and I want to thank all the candidates again for their effort!

*Lucy Pearson has withdrawn her candidacy; while I am saddened to lose her as a candidate, I am also deeply glad for her to have a chance to take care of herself and her needs. I'm leaving the link to her profile up, as her participation in this election has been of great value.

Up next I'm hoping to have up soon a post explaining the IRV process used to tally votes, this time with ~pictures!~. I know the system can be a confusing and can leave people a little lost on how best to distribute their vote to get what they want out of it, so I'm hoping that will help! This was a great idea of general_jinjur/allisonmorris's that she has also done awesome work on; you can see her post here for a preview. We'll have even more pictures/input from other talented and generous contributors to the project. Truly there will not that much work for me to do; I'm just happy that such a thing will exist, and grateful to everyone helping to make it happen ♥

Comments

[starlady]

Thanks for these.

[ira_gladkova]

My pleasure!

[lian]

Amazing. Thank you!

[ira_gladkova]

Thanks! I hope it's helpful =D

[unjapanologist]

Awesome! Thank you so much for putting so much work into this election.

[ira_gladkova]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate hearing that =D

I hope this resource is helpful, and I can't wait for the voting process post!

[facetofcathy]

This must have been so much work to put together. Thank you so much, you and Allison, for doing this.

[ira_gladkova]

Apologies for the belated reply! It's been a bit busy around here =\

I really appreciate this though; thank you! I'll point allison here as well so she sees =)

(repost because I am too tired to log in properly =D )