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Re: UK Election Tech Handbook

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Post by obayesshelton »

buro9 wrote: post #9
sefrost wrote: post #4

Has anyone in the UK volunteered their skills for any projects like those listed before? Would love to hear about your experience.

I'm working on https://tacticalvote.co.uk and volunteered during the 2017 snap General Election too. # Tech Our site handled a lot of traffic at the last snap election. 2.6m unique visitors in the 5 weeks before the vote, a crazy number during the last 48 hours. To accommodate this we have a static site builder, with our data in Google Sheets. We monitor github for changes, Sheets for changes, and auto-generate the s…

As soon as I saw "UNITE AGAINST THE TORIES" I left the page, regardless of who I vote for this tool is clearly biased.

Re: UK Election Tech Handbook

#12

Post by dangerface »

obayesshelton wrote: post #10

My only concern is that the people who run the tools etc. have their political view. For example " https://tacticalvote.co.uk" is clearly against the Conservative party. So that tool is straight away biased.

> UNITE AGAINST THE TORIES

Every one has a bias at least they own it. As long as they are not pretending to be unbiased I'm fine with it.

Re: UK Election Tech Handbook

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Post by buro9 »

obayesshelton wrote: post #11
buro9 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on https://tacticalvote.co.uk and volunteered during the 2017 snap General Election too. # Tech Our site handled a lot of traffic at the last snap election. 2.6m unique visitors in the 5 weeks before the vote, a crazy number during the last 48 hours. To accommodate this we have a static site builder, with our data in Google Sheets. We monitor github for changes, Sheets for changes, and auto-generate the s…

As soon as I saw "UNITE AGAINST THE TORIES" I left the page, regardless of who I vote for this tool is clearly biased.

I was at some of the meetings at Newspeak House from where the OP document originated.

I would say that not one person who is volunteering, giving up time and skill, or employed to work on anything listed on there... is without bias.

There is no person or group working on anything to do with politics and cited in that doc, that does not have an agenda of their own.

Re: UK Election Tech Handbook

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Post by methehack »

dangerface wrote: post #12
obayesshelton wrote: post #10

My only concern is that the people who run the tools etc. have their political view. For example " https://tacticalvote.co.uk" is clearly against the Conservative party. So that tool is straight away biased.

> UNITE AGAINST THE TORIES Every one has a bias at least they own it. As long as they are not pretending to be unbiased I'm fine with it.

If promoting voting or identifying the disinformation campaigns of nation states is considered bias, than consider me happily labeled. However, I think there's something categorically different about such tools as they are not so much promoting a specific outcome as allowing for a more representative outcome, aka a functioning democracy where people are exchanging ideas not click rates.

Re: UK Election Tech Handbook

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Post by sefrost »

obayesshelton wrote: post #11
buro9 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on https://tacticalvote.co.uk and volunteered during the 2017 snap General Election too. # Tech Our site handled a lot of traffic at the last snap election. 2.6m unique visitors in the 5 weeks before the vote, a crazy number during the last 48 hours. To accommodate this we have a static site builder, with our data in Google Sheets. We monitor github for changes, Sheets for changes, and auto-generate the s…

As soon as I saw "UNITE AGAINST THE TORIES" I left the page, regardless of who I vote for this tool is clearly biased.

I don't understand how you can complain the tool is biased against the Conservatives when the purpose of the tool is to prevent a Conservative win.

If it didn't do that it wouldn't do anything. Unless I've missed the point.

Re: UK Election Tech Handbook

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Post by nathan_young »

obayesshelton wrote: post #10

My only concern is that the people who run the tools etc. have their political view. For example " https://tacticalvote.co.uk" is clearly against the Conservative party. So that tool is straight away biased.

Feel free to edit text to note if tools are biased/add tools with different biases.

(disclosure, I helped initiate the doc)

Re: UK Election Tech Handbook

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Post by sefrost »

buro9 wrote: post #9
sefrost wrote: post #4

Has anyone in the UK volunteered their skills for any projects like those listed before? Would love to hear about your experience.

I'm working on https://tacticalvote.co.uk and volunteered during the 2017 snap General Election too. # Tech Our site handled a lot of traffic at the last snap election. 2.6m unique visitors in the 5 weeks before the vote, a crazy number during the last 48 hours. To accommodate this we have a static site builder, with our data in Google Sheets. We monitor github for changes, Sheets for changes, and auto-generate the s…

Hey, thanks for the reply, I really appreciate it.

I was about to pick up a new contract, but now the election has been announced I'm quite interested in joining up to help with some projects like this.

If I can find some interesting/impactful projects I'm happy volunteering full time up to the election.

By the way, how is your site promoted?

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