The most common problems:
- People don’t know how the country is divided into districts.
- People do not know how to see the results of their locality.
- People don’t know how total voting and representative voting works.
Context about PREP:
The average population don’t know how to use election data.
Software to use:
Older PREP system (click on image to enhance.
Design Thinking
2 Define
Value proposal
The proposal offered is: the new digital electoral vote pre-counting system must has an easy navigation, the users can recognize the hierarchy at they are located on the system, can compare data easily and it will be friendly to people with a low electoral culture.
User stories
Vote hierarchy
Priority – high
Estimation – high
As a electoral institute I must to show transparently the voting type, so that people can view the district and political actors.
Acceptance criteria
- I must have a hierarchy where the territorial level of voting is shown.
- In the hierarchy, the difference between districts and political actors has to be shown at the level at which it is found.
- Citizen participation, court and captured minutes must be quantified.
- Total minutes, nominal list and citizen participation by hierarchy must be show
Reduced comparison bias
Priority – medium
Estimation – medium
As a political party worker I want to compare political actors and political parties so that I can have a small bias of these data.
Acceptance criteria
- The user need to recognize the political actors and parties depending on the election.
- The user need to acknowledge total votes and total percentage.
- The user need to recognize total votes and percentage by hierarchy.
Direct results from polling booth
Priority – medium
Estimation – low
As a voter I want to search my polling booth, so that I can know the results of my town
Acceptance criteria
- The user must have his/her voter ID card on hand.
- The user must recognize the state where his/her voter ID card is registered.
- The user must recognize the section where his/her voter ID card is registered.
- The user must recognize his/her first name is registered on his/her voter ID card.
3 Ideate
To begin this part of publishing results, a benchmark was carried out of several countries in the world that have a similar system of elections in Mexico of Pre-count, the surprise was that we are one of the few countries that have this type of electoral processes.
The solution
Users can have a better navigation to see how the voting statistics are doing.
The emerging products of the prototyping and mock-up process are clean results, with information hierarchy, geopolitical hierarchy, and comparison of results between different political actors.
Button switch
Type of votes by political party and districts won by party.
Combos navigation
The most appropriate navigation is from largest to smallest (country – constituency – state – district – section – box)..
side navigation
Control Panel.
Voting statistics
Find your section
Find it with your voter ID in the data section.
Changue statistics
Vote Chart Type