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!

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




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