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Re: Allow one to change one's vote
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 16 Aug 2002 04:47:30 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> 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,
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> Me too! :-)
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> > 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.
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> What if all the polls let you change your mind up until the poll was closed by
> its creator/owner?
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> 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.
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> 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.
You could store the poll results anonymously, yet make them editable, by
assigning a random key to the poll results, and e-mailing the voter the
key.
One thing which would be nice if you allow polls to be edited at some
point is to dump the results, but send an e-mail to each person who
originally responded (you do obviously keep track of which polls a
person answered). Or, to reduce e-mail, perhaps you could send the
e-mail to those who don't re-vote within 48 hours of the edit or
something (presumably many people will re-vote soon after the edit to
the poll is announced).
Frank
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 15-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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