Election

Election: Canadian Elections

2008-01-31T19:20:39.0007Z

Types can only be modified by a domain administrator. So what I would recommend is that you create an "election campaign" type in your private domain to link the campaign contribution type to; it shouldn't have any properties other than those needed for the contribution model. This type would be added as an additional type to the Kevin Falcon (or any other) campaign topic. Note that this would only be a temporary measure, but will allow you to experiment with the contribution types in your private domain, without needing to rely on an administrator. If we ultimately end up moving the types to the governement domain, we would then hook the contribution type(s) directly to the main election type, rather than moving your election type over.

Election: Canadian Elections

2008-01-31T00:37:49.0000Z

I'm getting it - slowly, thank you all for your patience and answers.

So I've laid out the campaign for Kevin Falcon so that it makes sense. Now I'm trying to set up the campaign contribution type so its a part of each Election campaign type. Am I able to add that or does the person who created it need to. Perhaps you can lead me through this again so I can learn the terminology.

The end result should be that when I look at Falcon's campaign entry there should be a Campaign Contribution entry on the right hand part of the page.

Cheers from the snowyn Pacific Northwest

Ray

Election: Canadian Elections

2008-01-30T19:32:37.0007Z

I would hate to have to go this way -- it would be insanely complex. (We actually tried this briefly with the government positions schemata, and had to scrap it because it was too unwieldy.) The election shemata are intended work for just about any election; if they don't, we should try to modify them.

Election: A note about elections in Canada

2008-01-30T19:30:22.0007Z

Thanks for the information. We designed the election schema to be as broadly applicable as possible, and I think it should work well with the Canadian system. Each riding should have an election topic for every election (separate elections for provincial and federal); there would be no election topics for premiers or prime ministers. Does this help?

Election: Canadian Elections

2008-01-30T02:55:29.0005Z

Would it make more sense to add domains like Canadian Elections, German Elections etc. and create sub systems that support each of their different systems? Instinctively this doesn't feel right, but perhaps it will be easier in the long run.

Ray

Election: A note about elections in Canada

2008-01-30T02:18:06.0012Z

I thought it might be helpful to explain one of the differences between our systems. It may be why I'm struggling to sort some of these things in my mind.

In our provinces the government reps (MLAs) are all elected in their own individual ridings. The leader (Premier) is not elected separately - he runs in his own riding and is selected as leader by his own party. If the party wins the most seats - they form the next government. Local municipal elections are all run in separate elections - never at the same time. Its much more streamlined (simpler) - not necessarily better, but easier to understand.

Federally is very similar - we don't vote for our leader (Prime Minister). We vote for a local rep (MP) and the party who wins the most seats (ridings) forms the government and gets to choose the leader.

Where I live I have one Provincial rep and one Federal rep - that's it. We don't ever have an occasion to hold a Provincial election at the same time as a Federal election.

Does this help? Forgive me if you already understand this.

Ray

Election: Can election and election campaign be merged?

2008-01-29T02:24:47.0007Z

Thanks that helps me understand that term a bit easier. I read about it but didn't make the connection. I've been taking a close look at the structure and its starting to make sense - although some explanations might still be needed :)

Ray

Election: Can election and election campaign be merged?

2008-01-29T01:49:07.0007Z

If you have a relational database mind, it may be helpful to think of compound value types (CVTs) as useful where you would use a join in an RDBMS. For example, in an RDBMS, you might have a table of elections and a table of candidates, and a join table correlating which candidates contested which elections. This corresponds to the Election Campaign CVT in Freebase.

Election: Can election and election campaign be merged?

2008-01-29T01:04:05.0000Z

Chris - I'm having to check my relational database mind at the door. Yes it makes sense. Election Capaign is the way to attach many politicians to a specific Election.

Election: Can election and election campaign be merged?

2008-01-28T21:59:39.0007Z

Ray, an Election Campaign is an effort by one candidate within an Election. For example, “Colbert for President 2008” would be an Election Campaign of the Politician “Stephen Colbert” in the “2008 U.S. Presidential Election” Election. Does that make sense?

Election: Can election and election campaign be merged?

2008-01-26T20:02:51.0005Z

I'm just working my way through the political types and domains in order to establish some new ones. Is there a distinction between Election and Election Campaigns? Or for that matter Campaigns? It would seem to me that the system would be better served if there were less terms.

I'm brand new to this site so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious - its part of the learning process.

Thanks

Ray