[EM] zohopolls, web poll tech

[Brian Olson]

Hmm. I'm running a competing site, betterpolls.com, with better technology 
on the back end, but perhaps not quite as shiny on the front end.

Is 5 stars better than -10 to 10 popup? The pluses for 5 star is that you 
graphically see all your votes at once, and it's less mousing. -10 to 10 
popup gives better resolution, and is implicitly un-ambiguous about what 
no-vote choices get. The instructions on that zohopolls page imply to me 
that 1 star is actually the lowest vote possible, lower than no-start 
(no-vote).

On the back end betterpolls counts by 5 methods, not just strategy prone 
raw rating summation, and also presents histograms and I'm working on yet 
more when you enable the "tag the vote" feature which allows poll takers 
to self-identify.

Who is zohopolls? I'd rather keep things "in the family" of election 
methods activists and go with CIVS ( 
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html ) or my site, but maybe that's 
just groundless paranoia.

Brian Olson
http://bolson.org/