Minders and pipes

[Michael Allan]

The count engine now supports zero-weight votes.  For example:
http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?p=Sys!p!sandbox&u=Pipe%2B1138-ZeleaCom
The zero in the voter's C column is the weightless vote.  Such a voter
is an empty conduit of votes, contributing none of his/her own.

There are two types of weightless voters.  One is an impersonal user,
such as the pipe above.  http://zelea.com/w/Category:Impersonal_user

Another is a "barred" person, such as one who wanders into the wrong
electoral district.  Barred votes used to be blocked outright, but now
they're made weightless instead.  There's a bunch of them here:
http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?p=G!p!vohall&u=Test-1-ZeleaCom

All that remains to code is difference commutation for the container
pipes.  These used to be called "component" pipes [1].  (The new name
still isn't right.  Maybe "upswitch" is better than "container"?)
These are the pipes that point to upstream content, such as an office
nominee [2], or to the wild (accepted) variant of a component, such as
a part of a plan [3].  In the latter case, the pipe must behave as
though it had a draft of its own for difference purposes, though it
never actually has one; it must be a transparent diff pipe like it's a
transparent vote pipe.  So I'm coding this now.

Please report any bugs you see.


  [1] http://mail.zelea.com/list/votorola/2013-April/001676.html
  [2] http://zelea.com/w/Stuff:Votorola/p/power_structuring
  [3] http://zelea.com/w/Stuff:Votorola/p/position_space_rationalization

-- 
Michael Allan

Toronto, +1 416-699-9528
http://zelea.com/