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




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