Voting Record

Elected officials can record and display their votes and citizens can track and display the votes of an elected official they follow.

The votes are entered through a widget on the dashboard.

Installation

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Key features "Voting Record":

· The option to specify a primary voter (if most or all of the votes being tracked are from one person).
· How many recent votes to show - limited by number of votes or number of days. This includes a "Days plus" option which displays the specified number of days plus any extra votes to reach a minimum list size specified by the user (defaults to 5).
· Output for the recent votes and the search results are specified by templates. Each template contains a variable to specify what should precede the list, a variable to specify what should follow the list, a variable to show what should display if there are no results, and a template of how the list items should be formatted. List items allow the use of the following template tags - {bill} to display the name of the bill, {vote} to display the vote cast, {voter} displays the name of the voter, {date} displays the date the vote was cast, {desc} displays the description, {result} displays the overall pass/fail outcome of the vote, {tally} displays the overall vote tally. In addition to those standard tags, the header and footer for the search results can use the {count} tamplate tag to display a count of the results from the current search.

Requirements:

· WordPress 2.5 or higher