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Re: Allow one to change one's vote
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:14:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
> > If I change my mind about something I would like to be able to change
> > my vote,
> 
> Me too!  :-)
> 
> > like I can when rating sets in the Lugnet guide.  But some
> > polls shouldn't allow that.  So make it an option for the person
> > creating the poll as to whether or not to permit changing one's mind.
> 
> What if all the polls let you change your mind up until the poll was closed by
> its creator/owner?
> 
> The reason that the choices aren't recorded currently is for privacy reasons.
> In order to let you change your mind, it has to have a record of what you
> chose earlier, so that it can subtract it from the tally and re-tally your
> new choices.  I thought that making the design such that choices were never
> recorded would strike a fair compromise between usability and privacy.
> 
> I dunno, would it bother you if all your personal poll selections were
> stored?  If the system were hacked into, that information could theoretically
> be gotten at.
> 
> --Todd

Why not keep the anonymity as an option for creating a poll, but if it is
not chosen then the results are stored and allowed to be updated.

Jude



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  Re: Allow one to change one's vote
 
(...) Me too! :-) (...) What if all the polls let you change your mind up until the poll was closed by its creator/owner? The reason that the choices aren't recorded currently is for privacy reasons. In order to let you change your mind, it has to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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