election-services-comment message

Subject: Clarifying Party/Affiliation terms and usage

From: "David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>
To: election-services-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:51:59 -0700

The EML usage of party and affiliation is misleading compared to the US election practice and terminology.
 
To resolve this conflict suggested course of action is:
 
a) Rename everything that is labelled "Party" to "Supporter" instead.
 
b) Add an additional element to Affiliation to indicate a Type token.  This then can be extensible to include Party and everything else - Party, Union, Incumbent, and so on.
 
c) Make this change in EMLcore so it is reflected everywhere it is needed.
 
Example:
 
<Affiliation>
  <AffiliationIdentifier Id="0001"/>
  <Type>incumbent</Type>
</Affiliation>
 
Thanks, DW

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