The Llama Award
The Llama Award is the Monkey's mirror: a single number, 0 to 100, published as a percentage of that award, for how far a named politician's own recorded acts advanced the laws that repair representative democracy.
"This voting record was given a 72% Llama Award." Here, higher is better.
Why the opposite award has to exist
Because a damage number alone is a smear machine.
Without a repair award, the only thing the movement could ever publish about a person is how much harm they did, and the best possible outcome available to anybody would be a zero — the absence of a finding. A movement that can only accuse has no way to say this person is worth re-electing, and it would deserve the suspicion that gets it.
The Llama is how the record can say something good, on the same evidence, by the same arithmetic.
Same machinery, one different table
The Llama and the Monkey share almost everything: the same eligibility rules, the same definition of an act, the same twelve-category classifier, the same weighted-average equation. They differ in one place — the table of scores and weights each category carries.
That shared machinery is deliberate. Two separately-tuned systems would drift, and the day they disagreed nobody could say which was wrong.
Pages in this area
- The Good Law List — the curated set of repairing laws the award is computed over, and the tests for getting on it.
- Why not just inverted — the asymmetry between the two tables, and the argument for it.
- Which award leads — how the product decides which of the two a politician's card shows first.
Where to go next
- The Monkey Award — the area before this one.
- The Flamingo Award — the area after this one.
- Take Action — what to actually do with this.