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  Hi @cfrank - as @Toby-Pereira mentioned, there is electowiki for consolidating ideas from over here. At this point, I'm already relying on some pretty substantial help from LLMs for the tools I use to put together the electorama news. The latest draft edition is here:

  https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaNews/2026-January

  The prose in the ElectoramaNews is pretty much all mine, but the code I've "written" to provide the summaries of each of the forums (like my summary of this forum) was mostly generated from a vibecoded script I run periodically. My hope is that I'll be able to provide a more-and-more sophisticated summary of the various forums every month, and maybe I can have my tools call the LLMs to provide the summaries of the discussions. Right now, the "summary" in many sections is basically just a link to every forum post or email or whatever.

  Hopefully, by regularly publishing ElectoramaNews, we'll be able to drive some traffic over here to the Voting Theory forum.

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  @toby-pereira Yes, and if only extremists show up, they deserve the power.

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  Hopefully it's now been sent.

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  @cfrank said in We should probably have a status update at some point:

  The tabulation method cannot be centrally controlled as long as the votes are public. The only thing I want the council to possibly do is make an effort to verify, organize and present the results. We do definitely want a way to organize and separately analyze different groups of ballots.

  I hear ya, I'd just hope that could all happen transparently in the forum threads. Any results I posted would link to something like this, where people can paste in ballots, analyze the code, fork the code, etc, so any forum user could check my work (and if they wantm retabulate them in different methods or filtering voters by origin, etc). https://codepen.io/karmatics/pen/ExKZVjM

  I mean, I don't care if council members want to come in and verify them, but I honestly doubt they'd want to do it as anything other than regular forum participants. This stuff just seems to lend itself to forums

  I could see this leading to something more official.... built in widgets and visualizers, pinned threads, permanent pages, etc, and in that case it makes some sense for the council to be able to approve things, but let's just see how this goes first.

  Hopefully if the council does meet soon, they can concentrate on the issues such as entry point, categories/tags, etc... changes that @Jack-Waugh will need to make and I think he wants others to make the decisions before doing so.