The first version of my Drupal module to generate a letter about wasted votes is done. It customizes the letter to the statistics of the riding you specify.

You can try it here. Go send that letter to your local newspaper!

If you wish a copy of the module to install on your own site or modify, you can grab the data, .info and .module file.

Update 2009/09/11: Most recent .module file has been uploaded

I’m developing a Drupal module to facilitate writing to local newspapers about votes being wasted under first past the post. After writting my letter about the wasted vote rate in the Pontiac, I realized it could be re-written for 193 ridings (because in 193 ridings, more than half of the voters did not vote for the winning candidate).

Until that site is up, here’s some of the relevant data and the template letter so you can write your own letter:

• The template letter as a .txt file (also available below).
• The list of ridings with their number of wasted votes and total votes in csv format.

The above is sufficient to write the letter. (more…)