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/ ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info