# AUTHOR , YEAR. # msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: Fedora Elections Guide\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2011-02-22T01:12:36\n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2011-08-21 04:50+0000\n" "Last-Translator: Automatically generated\n" "Language-Team: None\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Language: aln\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)\n" #. Tag: title #, no-c-format msgid "Range Voting" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "Fedora Project currently implements a single voting method which is used for" " all elections and public polling." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #, no-c-format msgid "Concepts of Range Voting" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "Range voting works on the principal of allowing voters to rate as many or as" " few candidates as they want on a sliding scale." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "This method is designed to give voters the option of splitting their vote " "and showing their level of preference of a subset of candidates over " "another." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "Once voting ends, votes are tallied using the summing method (addition of " "all votes) to generate a final score for a candidate." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "An example of range voting is available in the next section, " msgstr "" #. Tag: title #, no-c-format msgid "Range Voting Example" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "To accurately demostrate the concepts of Range Voting in action, it is " "necessary to use a fictional election where 7 candidates are standing " "(Candidates A to G). If three eligible voters were to choose their level of " "perference as explained in a data table such as can be formed to display the data and demonstrate" " how a winner would be defined." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #, no-c-format msgid "Simple Example Ballot" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Candidate A" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Candidate B" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Candidate C" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Candidate D" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Candidate E" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Candidate F" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Candidate G" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Totals" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "14" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "12" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "15" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "7" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "13" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "6" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "8" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Voter A" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "0" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "3" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "4" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Voter B" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "2" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "5" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "Voter C" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #, no-c-format msgid "1" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "In this example, Candidate C would be declared the winner with a total vote " "of 15 as opposed to Candidate A's 14 votes." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #, no-c-format msgid "" "Zero votes have not altered the result due to the summing method been used " "and can be intrepreted as the voter having no preference or abstaining." msgstr ""