Please rank the following ideas for improving the CIVS service. If you think an idea is a bad idea, rank it below "do nothing ranked below this". You can also write in new ideas. Your feedback is appreciated!

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Give each of the following choices a rank, where a smaller-numbered rank means that you prefer that choice more. For example, give your top choice the rank 1. Give choices the same rank if you have no preference between them. You do not have to use all the possible ranks. All choices initially have the lowest possible rank.

 Choice Rank
Support Range Voting.
Strengthen privacy mechanisms
Improve performance of computing poll results
Support languages other than English
Automatic time-based closing of polls.
Election supervisor-defined text field for the beginning of system mail subject line.
Make current results visible even before a poll is closed, even for private polls.
Allow option to only accept ballots with a strict complete ordering. (write-in)
Allow write-in entries to be case-sensitive (good for voting on branding) (write-in)
Support IRV elections
Take into account a normalised proportional system which does not make any individual's 1st choice more important than another individual's 1st choice (write-in)
Allow for the creation of "voting tickets" on paper with url and qr-code for quick voting by mobile on-site (write-in)
add Hypatia as a competing journal for vote (write-in)
Dont use Ip addresses to identify voters.. there are about 20 of us here and it said our vote was already done...only one person voted. (write-in)
Explain how to upload and format ballots better for someone who knows nothing about computers. (write-in)
allow the poll supervisor to edit features of the poll such as who can see the results (write-in)
Make results universally verifiable
Improve the user interface for voting
Emmanuel Levinas (write-in)
Submit elections where individuals vote a variable number of shares, rather than just a single vote. The administrator assigns the number of shares for each voter, based on the shares they own. (write-in)
Support electing last uneliminated Scwartz set member in IRV. (write-in)
Add links to the candidates in the GA vote. (write-in)
No opinion should be assumed for pre-write-in opinions.
When adding a write-in, don't throw away my rankings so far (write-in)
Add "Edit" and "Remove" option to write-in added choices both for admin and creator. (write-in)
Support pairwise comparison of the alternatives, so as not to confuse voters when there are many alternatives.
Switch to "radio buttons" when poll has only two choices (write-in)
Add option to re-send ballots ONLY to non-voters, to avoid spamming those who already voted! (write-in)
Support more Condorcet completion algorithms
Allow for voter signature.
Support Alternative Schwartz and Alternative Smith (IRV on these sets) (write-in)
Allow option to reveal list of people who voted, but without their ballots.
Allow to submit weights for each voter, eg by integer number after voter's email (write-in)
Integrate with a good survey/polling system (write-in)
Allow voter to check and revise vote (until vote is closed).
1 (write-in)
Poll option to have an acceptability threshold pseudo-choice. (write-in)
Support Schulze STV and Schulze Proportional Ranking Method (write-in)
Add support for STV multiple winner: Schulze, CPO, Meek, Warren (write-in)
Optionally encrypt candidate names to protect against server operator
Allow the administrator to choose the poll language (write-in)
Allow option to reveal list of invited email addresses to voters, to avoid ballot stuffing by the administrator. (write-in)
Support sending results by email through the system.
(Do nothing ranked below this point)
Allow linked ballots: choosing a particular option on a ballot causes a conflicting response on a linked ballot to be reported or fixed.
Allow option to display ballots and voter receipt instead of voter email.
Allow multiple questions per poll
Allow polls that can be repeated (e.g., for daily restaurant choice)
Show times with local timezone in election results.
When voting, Cmd+click to select multiple or Shift+click to select a range (write-in)
Redo the look of the site.
Use cookies for public votes in lieu of ip addresses to work around NAT. (write-in)
Support comparison with Simple Majority vote (write-in)
Strengthen security mechanisms
reading Frederick Douglass (write-in)
Make reported poll results more understandable
Make voting ranks say "1st choice", "2nd choice", ..., "nth choice" instead of 1, 2, 3,..., n
Add a "DESTDIR" var to the install script for ease of distribution package creation
Tie votes to something other than IP address for those with NAT (network address translation) addresses.
Support Approval with votes optionally conditional upon recipient having more unconditional votes than any of your unconditionally approved candidates (write-in)




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