INTRODUCTION

This is a Drupal 9 version of https://www.drupal.org/project/election

It is largely functional with some outstanding issues, namely:

• First past the post elections
• Scheduling phases - phases do not step over

Terminology

An "election" is made up of "posts", which have "candidates" that people vote on. So for example:

Election: Leadership Race

Posts:

Activities & Engagement Officer Arts Officer

Candidates (per post):

Activities & Engagement Officer

• James Stewart
• Maria Marie

Arts Officer

• Dorothy Flax

However, these can have different names depending on the election type, so e.g. a "referendum" could be made up of "questions" which have "options" that people can vote on. The same general logic applies even with these different names.

Voting systems

Bundled with the module are election_fptp (First Past The Post) and election_openstv (Single Transferable Vote using the OpenSTV )

INSTALLATION

ELIGIBILITY CACHING

If you have complex eligibility requirements for posts (e.g. conditions) and a lot of users, it is recommended to increase the cache size for eligibility by adding this to settings.php or settings.local.php :

$settings['database_cache_max_rows']['bins']['election_eligibility'] = 150000;

STATISTICS CACHING

You can also improve statistics performance via the same approach:

$settings['database_cache_max_rows']['bins']['election_statistics'] = 100000;