Not a bad interface, but how do I vote? I got to order my candidates, but there was no "submit" button....
Thanks. I added a submit button (still at http://weblogz.com/voting/2000pres.html ), but clicking it doesn't do anything yet. (sorry, I am doing the back end stuff independently of the html interface....I will hook them together in a few days so you can actually vote)
As to displaying the results, I don't think you should until the voting is closed.
Hmmm, I don't think that's an option here. This is going to be used in a message board context, as an alternative to the (plurality) polls you see on many boards. (I should probably explain...I do some contract work for ezboard, a message board company with millions of -- mostly non-tech-savvy -- users ...and they are interested in offering this on their site). They hope to use this for things like feature requests, as well as allowing anyone to do their own "fun" polls for favorite tv show, who you think is going to win survivor, who is the hottest actor/actress, or whatever....
If given a choice between a standard plurality poll that shows current results as soon as you vote, vs. one that does Condorcet style ranking, but you have to wait until the end to see results....this type of user will choose the plurality one any day. (at least that is my prediction)
My little agenda here is to see if I can make a mainstream audience comfortable with Condorcet style voting....hopefully people who use it for little meaningless web polls and realize its benefits, people will warm up to it for "real" elections.
Then you should present a choice - "results according to..." and then a choice (or table of all choices' results) with Condorcet, IVR, Approval, Ranked-Pairs, etc.
Forget the bar graphs and analysis of who voted for whom, that's a different question.
Well, actually that was this question. :) I just think that a bar graph -- or something equally straightforward -- is what people expect to see. My feeling is that a condorcet table and all those other things are not really very interesting to most people, who don't care about voting theory and such -- they will look at such things and their eyes will glaze over. The simplicity of something like this http://polls.slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1013&aid=-1 counts for a lot.
If it is impossible to show a simple graph, ok, I'll have to accept that, but I suspect there is something I can show that will be meaningful to a mainstream audience.
-rob
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