Re: [belenios-discuss] Trouble mapping answers to results

[Véronique Cortier <veronique.cortier AT loria.fr>]

Did you try to read this page?
https://www.belenios.org/counting-others.html

This should explain how answers are encoded.

Kind regards,
Veronique.

Le 08/10/2024 à 15:38, Daniel Von Fange a écrit :
> 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