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Using Scrollytelling to Explain Voting Power in Ecuador

Published: 27 November 2021 Publication History

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We present a scrollytelling visualization that explains the concept of “voting power”, which refers to the influence that a group of voters have, relative to the geographical area they live in, on an election’s outcome. We explain this in the context of Ecuador, a country with electoral districts of varied sizes and populations (and, thus, varied voting power). Our visualization is designed to explain that a bigger territory does not necessarily imply more votes. Understanding this concept is particularly important in Ecuador, a country that officially depicts elections results through maps that use color hue to indicate the winning candidate of a given geographical area.

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Peter Ondrejka. 2016. Mapping election results in proportional electoral systems. Journal of Maps 12, sup1 (2016), 591–596.
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Nina Valkanova, Robert Walter, Andrew Vande Moere, and Jórg Múller. 2014. MyPosition: Sparking Civic Discourse by a Public Interactive Poll Visualization. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) (CSCW ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1323–1332. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531639

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  • (2022)LegisLatio: A visualization Tool for Legislative Roll-call Vote DataProceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction10.1145/3554944.3554957(1-8)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2022

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VINCI '21: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
September 2021
139 pages
ISBN:9781450386470
DOI:10.1145/3481549
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Published: 27 November 2021

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  1. Ecuador.
  2. Electoral data
  3. scrollytelling
  4. voting power

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  • (2022)LegisLatio: A visualization Tool for Legislative Roll-call Vote DataProceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction10.1145/3554944.3554957(1-8)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2022

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