[belenios-discuss] Trouble mapping answers to results

[Daniel Von Fange <daniel AT leancoder.com>]

I recently participated in my first Benelios voting process. After it was 
over, I wanted to visualize the beatpaths of the Schulz preferential voting. 
However, my first attempt resulted in data that did not match the official 
election results. I’m assuming I’m missing some knowledge about how 
results.json works.

The election had one Preferential Voting  / Schultze question. The results 
for that question appear to be an array of voter responses for that question, 
each response  containing an ordered ranking of all candidates. I assumed 
that this ordered ranking of candidates corresponded to the order of answers 
defined in the question elections.json, but using this method gives me 
results that do not match the final results and I do not see my set of voted 
set of preferences in the results when using this method.

How do the results for a preferential voting question map back to the 
question answers? Is there a json file somewhere I can use to look these 
mappings up?

— Daniel