Explore existing voting services and exercise by creating a conceptual model

[cdparra]

• [x] Clone this repository
• [x] Do a tutorial of playframework (for the Backend student)
• [x] Do a tutorial of angularjs (for the UI student)
• [x] Follow the README to make it work
• [x] As an exercise, create an entities relational model for the voting system (based on existing examples in the spreadsheet)
• [x] Browse the wireframe and come with questions that you might have

@yifan-li01 @yadelab

[yifan-li01]

We have looked through the existing voting services on the spreadsheet and listed below some of the sites that may be useful to our development of the voting service.

1. Agora (API Available) Borda Count: assign score x to a candidate who ranks before x people in a vote — Can be used to implement rank voting Pairwise: break down an election into several pairwise competition; we add 1 to each winner and 0.5 to each candidate if there is a tie — Can be used to implement any kind of voting system we have Plurality at large: voters can vote up to n candidates; the n candidates with the most votes win —Can be used to implement plurality voting Nice UI Design
2. Citizen Budget
3. The design of the distributed budget can be useful for the UI design of our distributed voting system.
4. Parcipa Not recommended. Users can only post on social media through the app, which allows other people to see that what the users have voted for or against. No privacy protection.
5. Democracy OS Implements plurality voting ADVANTAGE: More open to discussion; users can comment on the voting page about why they vote for or against a proposal.
6. Textizen(API available) Nice UI Design Visualize voting result (However, we have no access to it since it seems to be charged)
7. Loomio Implements plurality voting
8. California Report Card Ask voters to rate each proposal from A+ to F, which is similar to range ballot
9. Bipart It offers two ways of registering: one way requires an email address and the other does not. The email-required way allows users to update or edit their votes Nice UI Design
10. Appgree Implements plurality voting Nice UI Design!
11. Orçamento Participativo Digital It only allows users who provide their Drivers’ license ID or other forms of ID to vote. — One way of dealing with the problem of limiting the range of voters

[yifan-li01]

We have also browsed the wireframe and come up with the following questions:

1. In the page of voting in campaign creation, there is the question of who votes, which currently has no option, only "All Assembly members". Is this going to be changed eventually?
2. In the voting page of range voting and distributed voting, we find the way in which proposals are organized very ambiguous. On the right it seems like only the proposals that are under the theme of urban infrastructure are listed, but on the left there is no explicit sign that shows which theme we are voting for. Does this mean that we can only vote for one theme a time or should we fix this problem?

[yadelab]

[cdparra]

I think this issue can be closed and the focus is now in implementing the service.