Mike,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Jeff<br><br>------- Mike Ossipoff wrote ----------------<br>> but i thought they were reporting results in the near future. how are they reporting their results? <br>> will they be telling us who the STV winner is, the Schulze winner, the Ranked-pairs winner, the Borda winner, <br>
> the Bucklin winner, the Coombs winner?<br>.<br>Kristofer is right--It's ok if the the polling website or the poll-conductor doesn't do the count. It's enough if<br>the rankings are easily available to anyone who wants to count them as they choose to. I was a bit unfair<br>
when I implied that the poll-conductor should do the count.<br> ...<br>In the poll that I will conduct, if anyone wants to designate FPTP, they may. Likewise, of course,<br>anyone may nominate any method they want to.<br>
<br>The method that you, as a voter, designate, needn't be one of the nominated methods that we're<br>voting between--though it of course could be. And your designated method needn't be simple enough<br>for a public proposal, though I think it would be much better if it is--so that our election can demonstrate<br>
publicly-proposable methods.<br> <br>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<br>going to do it).<br> <br>That brings up another point:<br>
<br>Website polls, of course, have nearly no security. Yes, you can require people to register their e-mail address.<br>I have two e-mail accounts and addresses. If I wanted to cheat in the election, I could register and vote<br>
with both accounts. The current poll's registration requirement helps avoid the most blatant ballot-<br>stuffing, but it doesn't prevent ballot-stuffing.<br> <br>I know of one, and only one, secure way to conduct a poll on the Internet: Do it at this mailing list. <br>
That's how we, at EM, did polls for years. I understand that, now, it's more popular to do polling<br>at other websites, because the voting is easier.<br> <br>But is that worth abandoning any chance of having a secure, un-ballot-stuffed poll? I certainly don't<br>
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