Please rank the following ideas for improving the CIVS voting service. If you think an idea is bad, rank it below "do nothing ranked below this". You can also write in new ideas, but do check the list to see if your idea is already there. Your feedback is appreciated!

CIVS is an open-source project on GitHub, and you are also welcome to try implementing your ideas. If you're not happy with any of the language translations, please let us know by making a GitHub pull request or opening an issue there.

Note that some of these ideas have been partly or completely implemented. Voters can now change their votes; it's possible to send ballots only to non-voters; and there is more protection against ballot stuffing. Some ideas are impossible to implement without weakening the privacy protections of the system, like seeing the list of people who voted.

Only the 10 favorite choices will win the poll.
The poll ends in due course. The poll supervisor is Andrew Myers (andru@cs.cornell.edu). Contact the poll supervisor if you need help.

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 voter to check and revise vote, until vote is closed.
Do not publish email in plain text.
Allow adding votes
Allow some form of voter signature.
Make IP-based voting ("Already voted") optional, for multiple voters on the same network (write-in)
Please add a possiblity in the email to mark that a poll is abusive/spam/fraud/harassing (write-in)
Add option to re-send ballots ONLY to non-voters, to avoid spamming those who already voted.
None of hyphen, en-dash, or em-dash worked for uploading files with no preference (write-in)
Allow candidates to decline involvement in election, with result calculated using the reduced list.
Support sending results by email through the system.
Restrict to one rank per vote (no ties, so cannot select multiple candidates as #1)
Allow users to see a list of polls they are able to vote in after first activation of their address (write-in)
Option to show list of invited email addresses to voters, to prevent ballot stuffing.
Show times with local timezone in election results.
Allow the poll supervisor to edit features of the poll such as who can see the results.
Make results universally verifiable.
Allow customizing the polls presented after finishing a vote (write-in)
Add STAR Voting Method (write-in)
Have Punjabi as a Language of Choice for Gurdwara Elections (write-in)
Support French (write-in)
Allow long press to select as an alternative to shift-click (write-in)
Allow turning off any kind of verification and just let people vote multiple times (voter may be on the same network)
Allow removal of poll results by the administrator after poll closes
http://pascal.hoez.free.fr/azenv.php (write-in)
Optimize web page for small/mobile screens.
Switch to "radio buttons" when poll has only two choices.
Allow voters to edit their vote after the fact (in case of accidents) (write-in)
Report raw Condorcet results without completion algorithms - Condorcet winners and groups of Smith/Schwartz sets
In anonymous votes, optionally show which people voted already/not yet. This would allow poll supervisors to follow up with slow voters. (write-in)
Support https- and GPG-encrypted mail.
Allow supervisors to send private keys personally.
In Condorcet-IRV, solve last place ties by counting 2nd last, etc.
Add an option to make the poll supervisor's e-Mail private. (write-in)
Add secondary interface in which 1v1 face-offs can be used instead of ranking the options
Have a mandatory "non of the above" option. (write-in)
Make the "Only X will win" optional. In some cases we just need a ranked list. (write-in)
Get rid of IP filtering for public polls, it stops two people from voting from behind the same NAT.
Make the default "no opinion" instead of last place, when "no opinion" is an option. (write-in)
Add the "Stable Voting" method. (write-in)
Allow multiple questions per poll.
Allow poll supervisors to require an authorized GPG signature for each ballot, from a list of fingerprints. (write-in)
allow supervisors to add categories for poll (politics, films, novels, etc.) and allow sorting of polls on home page by category
Use "Additive" Ranked Ballot: counting the 1st choices & then is no-one has 50%, ADDING IN the next choices & so on till someone finally does. (write-in)
Be able to manually choose the language on the home page and the invitation email rather than automatically basing it on the user's browser preferences
Limit the number of choice e.g., Select the top three candidates (write-in)
Allow definition of pop-up descriptions for each poll choice
Make current results visible even before a poll is closed, even for private polls.
Allow polls that can be repeated (e.g., for daily restaurant choice).
Improve the user interface for voting.
Allow distributing ballots as individual QR codes (write-in)
When adding a write-in, don't throw away my rankings so far.
allow donations in Bitcoin (write-in)
Elections where individuals vote with a variable number of admin-specified shares.
Poll option to have an acceptability threshold pseudo-choice.
Support Dutch (write-in)
Allow changing your vote before the vote closes.
Automatic time-based closing of polls.
More detailed definition of CIVS RP (write-in)
Tie votes to something other than IP address for those with NAT addresses.
Update process for opt-in to private polls. New 4/21 rule unclear and too many steps for participants. (write-in)
http://mafreeboxtv.fr/playlist.m3u (write-in)
Single click to "resend emails to those who have not voted yet" (write-in)
Make it clear during creation what can and can't be updated after poll is created (write-in)
Allow polls to be created with defined ranks and a custom default rank. (write-in)
Support Greek.
Do nothing ranked below this
Add approval voting or contrast it with ranked choice on the inital page (write-in)
Support Norwegian.
Allow option to only accept ballots with a strict complete ordering.
Use Margin-Based methods as well as winning votes, as these are more fair methods. (write-in)
Support SSL/TLS to protect against network adversaries (e.g., employers).
Allow user to manually switch language away from what browser preferences state. Some translations are impossible to understand.
Add an option for private polls to be automatically closed when everyone has voted
Eliminate ballot quantity limitations for test polls. Will allow for weighted ballots.
Allow people to see how a poll is going before it closes.
Support more Condorcet completion algorithms.
Allow option to reveal list of people who voted, but without their ballots.
Implement single transferable vote (STV) (write-in)
Provide a link for the poll results on the "Poll Control" page.
Allow access to all previous closed polls. (write-in)
Add support for STV multiple winner: Schulze, CPO, Meek, Warren.
Election supervisor-defined text field for the beginning of system mail subject line.
Support Japanese.
Require a CAPTCHA for rank submissions and/or write-ins
Require a memory-hard proof of work for each ballot to avoid spam (write-in)
Support Russian.
tsc (write-in)
Allow supervisor to change public poll so it is publicized on home page or make that the default for public polls
Provide the option not adding "(write-in)" to the name of write-in candidates. (write-in)
Allow null ranking, including the 'null choice' as a 'pseudo-candidate': a preference profile can look like A > ∅ > ∅ > B = C. (write-in)
Existing votes should rank new write-ins as "No opinion", not last place.
Support Range Voting.
Allow write-in entries to be case-sensitive.
Support comparison with Simple Majority vote.
Provide poll setting to determine tallying method in advance. (No ambiguity afterwards.) (write-in)
See who has voted so far
Option to reveal who has already voted without displaying what they voted for (write-in)
Support IRV elections.
Allow the organiser to edit the poll before it is started.
Allow a candidate to be removed after the election has been started.




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