Re: [Fwd: [ga-full] RE: [ga] Voting rules, take 4]

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Joop,

I too wrote an online polling/voting/comment gatering system, for the DNSO
before there was a DNSO or ICANN. I think several of us have atempted to
build and get folks to use such systems without much response.

I also did a bit of research into why folks never use our little automated
democracy machines or ADM ;-) It basicly comes down to user interface
issues, folks don't like to leave the "context" or user agent thay are in
(in this case the UA is the e-mail client.) Until we can demonstrate
support for both a web style and e-mail style UIs I doubt these voting
booths of ours will get much use.

-rick
 
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 02:34 21/06/00 +0200, you wrote:
> >This is my concern.
> >
> >If we start now a discussion (again?) on what is the *very best* (tm) 
> >method for voting on multiple choices, we are likely to achieve exactly 
> >what Prof. Froomkin fears, i.e. something that is interminable.
> >
> >What we need is a simple bootstrap to get going.
> >Once bootstrapped, we can make the system stepwise more "accurate" (but 
> >also probably more "complicated").
> >
> Been there, done that.  Therefore I agree with Roberto's sentiment.
> 
> Having been vilified the first time for my offer of  the Polling Booth with
> it's different voting options, I'm hesitant to offer it again. But it's
> there and Harald and Roberto can have an administrator account if  they
> feel it can be of use to the GA.
> 
> >Also, for the time being we don't have to deal with elections, where we 
> >will necessarily have to deal with multiple candidates, but with 
> >"proposals" or "statements", where with some good work in the prior 
> >discussion on the list we may be able to reduce the question to the 
> >electorate to a "Yes/No".
> >
> I constructed the Polling Booth specifically for this kind of group
> decision-making.
> The Booth will allow YES/NO votes, a pick-list with multiple tick options
> (perfect for approval voting, Harald) , a pick-list with a single vote
> option, sliding scale opinion polling,  voting results visible in real
> -time or not,  and an archive of all the votes taken.
> It also has the option of allowing (anonymous) comment on the topic that's
> up for a vote.
> 
> Striving for perfection at this stage is self-defeating.
> 
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
> the Cyberspace Association and 
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> http://www.idno.org  
> 
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