(sent from wrong address at first, here goes...)
HI folks,
I've been wondering for some time if it wasn't possible to make board
voting a bit less stressful.
As it is right now, you have to mentally keep a note of letters and
their corresponding names and how that all adds up to a weird string you
are typing into a text field - it can get a bit confusing, especially
when you suddenly change your mind and want to rearrange things.
So I came up with an interactive UI for managing those sort of votes,
where you can drag'n'drop candidates onto a ballot (as many as you like,
of course) and then rearrange that ballot as you see fit with your
mouse. Not only will i display the candidates in a more friendly manner,
it will also conform to the old Steve methods and generate an STV string
for voting. I've been working with Jim to get some extra features into
it, and it's starting to look real nice.
You can see a demo with fake names at http://asfcloud.com/steve.html
I have a patch for the perl script so that everything - sans the
statement data - will work out of the box.
To get to the point; Is this something we would want to implement, maybe
showcase at the next annual meeting? The feedback I've gotten has been
ranging from "I like it" to "wow, that's awesome", so I think we could
really help some folks if we could get this implemented.
It's tested and should work with the latest versions of FireFox, Chrome,
Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc (anything that will do HTML5).
You can see a patch to cast-vote.pl at https://paste.apache.org/p/n1IU
although it will also require the support files (JS, CSS, PNGs) to work
properly.
Thoughts? Comments? Flames?
With regards,
Daniel.
