[EM] Poll for favorite single winner voting system with OpaVote

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

Mike,

The election closes on Sunday, and I will post a summary of results here
using a few methods.  It is interesting see what supporters of one method
think about other methods..  The ballots are also available for people to do
with as they like.

For the election that you want to conduct, you could use OpaVote to ensure
that voters can only vote once.  There is an "Election" mode where you
supply the email addresses of all the voters, and OpaVote sends each voter
an email with a special link that allows them to vote.  OpaVote keeps track
of who has voted and ensures that each voter only votes once.  To avoid
spamming people, perhaps you could you use the email addresses from the this
list but remove anyone who has email delivery disabled.  Let me know if you
need help setting it up.

Jeff

------- Mike Ossipoff wrote ----------------
> but i thought they were reporting results in the near future. how are they
reporting their results?
> will they be telling us who the STV winner is, the Schulze winner, the
Ranked-pairs winner, the Borda winner,
> the Bucklin winner, the Coombs winner?
.
Kristofer is right--It's ok if the the polling website or the poll-conductor
doesn't do the count. It's enough if
the rankings are easily available to anyone who wants to count them as they
choose to. I was a bit unfair
when I implied that the poll-conductor should do the count.
...
In the poll that I will conduct, if anyone wants to designate FPTP, they
may. Likewise, of course,
anyone may nominate any method they want to.

The method that you, as a voter, designate, needn't be one of the nominated
methods that we're
voting between--though it of course could be. And your designated method
needn't be simple enough
for a public proposal, though I think it would be much better if it is--so
that our election can demonstrate
publicly-proposable methods.

I'm talking a lot about my poll, though I haven't yet proposed it, or set it
up at a website (if that's how I'm
going to do it).

That brings up another point:

Website polls, of course, have nearly no security. Yes, you can require
people to register their e-mail address.
I have two e-mail accounts and addresses. If I wanted to cheat in the
election, I could register and vote
with both accounts. The current poll's registration requirement helps avoid
the most blatant ballot-
stuffing, but it doesn't prevent ballot-stuffing.

I know of one, and only one, secure way to conduct a poll on the Internet:
Do it at this mailing list.
That's how we, at EM, did polls for years. I understand that, now, it's more
popular to do polling
at other websites, because the voting is easier.

But is that worth abandoning any chance of having a secure,
un-ballot-stuffed poll? I certainly don't
think so.
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OpenSTV -- Software for counting STV and ranked-choice voting
OpaVote -- Online elections for ranked-choice voting
http://www.OpenSTV.org
http://www.OpaVote.org
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