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- This is a glossary of technical terms for Votorola. It includes a partial set of diagrammatic symbols; for the complete set, see the legend.
abstract position draft
- A position draft that contains a region of unspecified content (hotspot).
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See Template:Hotspot and Category:Abstractor.
account pipe
- A pipe representing an expenditures account in an apportionment primary.
base candidate
- A root candidate, or a cycler.
branch
- A candidate and all voters.
- Cf. #group.
broad-based decision guidance
- The regulation of administrative decisions under advice of the lifeworld.
candidate
- One who receives a vote.
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See theory.xht#vote.
carry
- (to carry a vote) To propel through a delegate to the next candidate. Not to hold.
- See theory.xht#medium.
cast
- (to cast a vote) To originate from the voter and to propel toward the immediate candidate.
communicative action
- Social action that is coordinated by discussion aimed at mutual understanding or consensus.
component pipe
- A pipe representing a variable unit in the composition of a text.
consensus
- General agreement.
- Cf. #unanimity.
continuous
- (of voting) In which a cast vote may be shifted by the voter, or withdrawn, at any time.
cycle
- (in transitive voting) A circular flow of votes that arises when voting for one's voter, directly or indirectly.
- See theory.xht#cycle. Cf. #tree.
cycler
- (in transitive voting) One who votes for one's own voter, directly or indirectly. A cycler is also a base candidate.
- See theory.xht#cycle.
decision guideway
- A device for broad-based decision guidance.
delegate
- A candidate and a voter. One who both receives a vote and casts a vote.
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See theory.xht#medium.
delegate cascade
- See #transitive.
draft
- See #position draft.
elector
- A person who has the right to vote in an election.
guideway
- A device for broad-based system guidance.
group
- A candidate and immediate voters.
- Cf. #branch.
hold
- (to hold a vote) To keep with a candidate. Not to carry to further candidates.
issue
- (of a poll) What happens as a consequence of the poll.
leaf position
- Not a candidate.
- Atop a tree.
minder
- One who controls a pipe.
- See Property:Minder.
office nominee
- The applicant whom the minder of an office pipe intends to appoint to the office.
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See Category:Office pipe.
office pipe
- A pipe representing an office in an executive power structure.
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See Category:Office pipe.
open party
- A party that takes both its candidate list and its leader from open primaries.
- Also known as a "technical party", or "public party".
pipe
- An impersonal position manned by a pipe minder. It carries votes like a delegate, but its own vote never counts. Generally the pipe represents a group or other association of persons.
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See Category:Pipe.
poll
- A decision guideway that effects its guidance through the currency of consensus. It formalizes agreement as a collection of primary votes on a prospective issue, which in Votorola means a forest of trees.
- See Category:Poll.
position
- The intersection of a user and a poll; a person's or group's stance in regard to the issue of the poll.
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See Category:Position. Cf. #pipe.
position draft
- A textual contribution to a position.
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See Category:Draft.
primary
- (in broad-based decision guidance) A decision guideway.
root candidate
- A candidate who is not a voter. A root candidate is also a base candidate.
supercomponent pipe
- A pipe representing a group of components.
transitive
- (of voting) In which a vote may be carried through any number of contiguous delegates. Also know as 'delegate cascade'.
- See a/M2#i2 and theory.xht#medium.
tree
- The typical form of a cascade of transitive votes.
- Cf. #cycle.
unanimity
- Total agreement.
- Cf. #consensus.
user
- A formal participant in the practice.
variant
- A position that votes directly for a component pipe.
vote
- A formalized unit of agreement.
- See theory.xht#vote.
voter
- One who casts a vote.
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See theory.xht#vote.
wild variant
- The variant that is nominated by a component pipe.
