Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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FWIW, I'd like to add (but probably won't do all):
* ability to filter by district, mail-in vs in-person
* popup showing next choices for the cells in the RCV table
* ability to run the RCV with a candidate removed
* ability to run the RCV with some extra ballots added in
It's documented at the PDF at the "(?)" link, i.e., sfelections.org/results/2018…
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Every line is a single rank from a ballot. Notice columns 34-36 go 001, 002, 003, 001, 002, .... (See my JS code, too.)
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At sfelections.sfgov.org/june-5… . See "Ranked-Choice Voting: Ballot Image" and "(?)" and "Ranked-Choice Voting: Master Lookup".
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I tossed what I have up at github.com/dbaron/sf-electio… ... but I have some plans for what to do next.
(Right now the output is literally to console.log() because I haven't written anything else.)
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But they publish all the ballots!
At this point I have JS code that runs the ranked choice and reproduces (on spot check of numbers) the official table.
Still need to:
* make it produce readable output rather than a JS object
* make it show more data than the official results
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The RCV elimination order looks pretty stable... the closest elimination %-wise is the very last one. (If there were other close ones, that could throw things off in interesting ways... another downside of this counting method!)
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There should also be a pretty substantial pile of vote-by-mail remaining too, though. Do you think those are likely to look more like the vote-by-mail received early, or like the election day voting?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Here's my latest. I'm asking everyone who follows this Twitter feed--and who gives a damn about the Trump-Russia scandal--to click, read, and share it. And if you can't click and read, still please share it. motherjones.com/politics/201… via @MotherJones
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Continuing the recent trend, the #Unicode11 Core Specification (PDF)—with many changes & additions—is once again simultaneously released with the UCD (Unicode Character Database), Code Charts & Annexes → bit.ly/Unicode11
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
“number-crunchers tell me that, of the ballots that have already returned, some two-thirds were filled out by San Franciscans aged 50 or over. That is heavily out-of-whack with the electorate writ large.” GUYS, GO VOTE TODAY.
“If London Breed is ahead more than 10 in absentees, I’m drinking at that point,” Mark Leno partisan tells me.
Here's what to watch for as election returns trickle in. My latest column for @MLNow
missionlocal.org/2018/06/wha…
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Please push to reduce zoning restrictions and other obstacles to residential and commercial construction in the Bay Area, and endorse candidates for state office who support that. Urban infill (which is best for the environment) being so hard pushes rents up.
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It seems to me that a cross-browser and standardized format for web packaging would let some of the users of PDF move to using the Web. I think the Web is better for some uses of PDF, except that the ability to save the package for accurate reuse later is a requirement.
the year is 2050. running adobe reader takes up 50% CPU of the most powerful machines available to consumers. the carbon emissions from reading PDFs now exceed motor vehicles. it's still impossible to copy/paste text from a pdf
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I saw a passing mention of an Apple keynote, so I loaded apple.com/ in a tab to see what was up.
2 seconds later I (and others nearby) heard audio from a live presentation.
Wait, video on apple.com works on my browser?
I guess this is progress.
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On the other hand, I heard they're restarting the bus service between Millbrae and SFO that they stopped when BART started.
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At this point, I think Uber Pool is a equally-priced (before tip, anyway), faster, and easier way than BART to get betwen Millbrae Caltrain station and SFO airport.
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